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

[Michael Hennebry]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Lou Hafer wrote:

> 	The alternative is a module definition (.def) file, which is processed
> by the linker when it assembles the various .obj files into the DLL and
> import library. But there's a problem: everything I've been able to find
> that talks about automated generation of the .def file assumes that
> declarations are decorated with __declspec so that 'dumpbin /exports'
> will work. That's not the case here. Hand maintenance of the .def file
> is not possible in the world of C++, mangled names to handle overloads,
> and libraries that export hundreds of methods. Name mangling is not
> standardised. It comes down to `How to automatically extract the mangled
> names from the .obj files without __declspec?'

There are programs, with names like mangle and demangle,
that will convert between mangled and readable C++ names.
Some of them even take an argument to specify the mangling method.

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