[Expat-discuss] Re: Conflict with two expat shared libraries

[Karl Waclawek]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steinar Bang" <sb at dod.no>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:23 PM


>>>>>> "Karl Waclawek" <karl at waclawek.net>:
> 
>> I saw that flag mentioned as well. Supposedly it is not well
>> supported.  Hhmm, would it not be better then to find a way to
>> control which symbols are exported from within Expat? In other
>> words, isn't there a design issue with Expat?
> 
> I think the enhancement request below would fix at least this
> particular problem:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1048448&group_id=10127&atid=110127
> 
> This would be similar to the "A" and "W" suffixes used on different
> versions of the Win32 API calls.

I guess it would break existing code, but it is in principle a reasonable approach.
The other one would be, of course, to control what is exported, to avoid the need
for the -Bsymbolic flag.

Karl