[Vm-dev] Exporting module symbols on windows

[Igor Stasenko]

On 8 February 2013 19:23, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> i again bitten by inability to access global symbols of VM module at run time..
>> while on unixes, it is fairly easy to do:
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>> dlsym('foo', RTLD_DEFAULT);
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> Only because the linux VM is linked with -export-dynamic
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>> on windows, compiler/linker does not exposing any symbols :(
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> But it can be asked to.
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>> so what i doing now is adding shitty primitives which just return
>> pointers to variables....
>> this smells bad..
>> i wonder , is this impossible in principle, or it is just a
>> win-specific default linker/compiler setting which
>> different from unix one?
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> I think I'm right in thinking it's the latter.  If you're using the mingw cygwin compiler then, depending on version, you either use --export-dynamic or --export-all-symbols.  See http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/cygwinbuild/HowToBuild.
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> If you're using the Microsoft LINK.EXE then you might have to get the Makefile to generate a .def file containing all exports.
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> best,
> Eliot
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thanks, Eliot. i will try to see if those option would make any difference



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.