linker problem solved so far (was: windows port: Help on linker problem needed)

[Christian Stimming]

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*sigh* I guess I'll have to shoot some libtool developer when I happen
to meet them in a dark alley...

Christian Stimming schrieb:
> The problem seems to get introduced by linking to gnc-module.o into a
> library, so the full symbol table of gnc-module.o is printed at the
> bottom of this message. That symbol table has some symbols marked by "C"
> -- is this a problem?

Turns out the libtool header <ltdl.h> *must* have the macros _WIN32 and
in particular LIBLTDL_DLL_IMPORT defined or otherwise the linking will
fail on windows. Once I do this, these variables marked with "C"
disappear in the object file, and all expected symbols correctly appear
in the resulting DLL...

For now I add these defines to the ./configure CFLAGS and all is done,
see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows . More on windows later.

Christian
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