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

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Lou Hafer wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 17:26 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> [ ... prior discussion of extracting mangled names from object files
>>   to generate a .def file for building DLLs. ... ]
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> 	Might well be. I'm unsure what led me to the idea of individual object
> files; likely it was the incremental extension of testing the basic idea
> on a single object file. I'll keep it in mind next time I swing past
> this.  Thanks!

nm -s libfoo.a | grep ' in ' | sed 's/  *in .*$//'
will list the symbols in the index of libfoo.a .
With the right sed command, one doesn't need grep, 
but I picked commands easy for me to think about.

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