[Python-Dev] Is __declspec(dllexport) really needed on Windows?

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:25:53 +1200 (NZST)


Tim Peters <tim@zope.com>:

> The best thing to do for Windows is ask that Windows users supply
> patches.

It was using a patch supplied by a Windows user that got
me into this mess. He said that the DL_EXPORT macro
didn't work for him.

But it sounds like using DL_EXPORT is the officially
correct thing to do, so I'll do that.

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