As ugly as win32 Microsoft compiler is by using the __declspec macro, it does have the advantage of being explicit about what you want to export or not.
Moving the same code onto a Linux gnu/gcc system now means all classes are exported!(?)
Is this really true?
Is there a way to NOT export a class within a shared library under gcc?
#ifndef WIN32
#define __IMPEXP__
#else
#undef __IMPEXP__
#ifdef __BUILDING_PULSETRACKER__
#define __IMPEXP__ __declspec(dllexport)
#else
#define __IMPEXP__ __declspec(dllimport)
#endif // __BUILDING_PULSETRACKER__
#endif // _WIN32
class __IMPEXP__ MyClass
{
...
}
This is possible in GCC 4.0 and later. The GCC folks consider this visibility. There is a good article on the GCC wiki about the subject. Here is a snippet from that article:
#if defined _WIN32 || defined __CYGWIN__
#ifdef BUILDING_DLL
#ifdef __GNUC__
#define DLL_PUBLIC __attribute__((dllexport))
#else
#define DLL_PUBLIC __declspec(dllexport) // Note: actually gcc seems to also supports this syntax.
#endif
#else
#ifdef __GNUC__
#define DLL_PUBLIC __attribute__((dllimport))
#else
#define DLL_PUBLIC __declspec(dllimport) // Note: actually gcc seems to also supports this syntax.
#endif
#define DLL_LOCAL
#else
#if __GNUC__ >= 4
#define DLL_PUBLIC __attribute__ ((visibility("default")))
#define DLL_LOCAL __attribute__ ((visibility("hidden")))
#else
#define DLL_PUBLIC
#define DLL_LOCAL
#endif
#endif
extern "C" DLL_PUBLIC void function(int a);
class DLL_PUBLIC SomeClass
{
int c;
DLL_LOCAL void privateMethod(); // Only for use within this DSO
public:
Person(int _c) : c(_c) { }
static void foo(int a);
};
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