[Coin-discuss] Question about building [Cbc, Clp, etc.] in Visual Studio

[Michael Hennebry]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Lou Hafer wrote:

> Michael,
>
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>>> I got the impression that the problem was not getting the names.
>>> It was deciding which ones to use.
>>> 'Twas the decision-making that I thought could use demangle or
>>> undname. An iteration would be:
>>>   get mangled_name
>>>   if is_market_for(demangle(mangled_name)):
>>>     export mangled_name
>>
>> Which is on the mark. Unfortunately, is_market_for is beyond me. The

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>
> I'm certain that if my grasp of PE/COFF was better, I could do a better job
> of interpreting the symbol information returned by dumpbin. Is it worth the
> effort? I'm going to plead `My brain is full!' and hope that someone who
> already understands PE/COFF is willing to contribute.

Would reading the index of the corresponding static library be easier?
for each mangled_name :
     if mangled_name in index of static library :
         export mangled_name

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