On May 21, 2017, at 12:43 PM, Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I haven't looked at the specific issue, but Windows can export data from a DLL into another DLL.
Yes, but if DLL A exports a data item called "fff" that's imported by DLL B, and DLL B uses it in this fashion:
static struct xyzzy foo {
...
&fff,
...
};
will that work? You might be able to do
xxx = fff;
but can you take the address of the exported item and use that to initialize a pointer in a static data structure.
And will it work if DLL B is loaded at run time?
That's the specific issue here.
> The data to be exported should be declared __declspec(dllexport),
That's WS_DLL_PUBLIC_DEF from ws_symbol_export.h, if we're building for Windows with MSVC and WS_BUILD_DLL is defined.
> and when it is required to be imported declared as __declspec(dllimport).
That's WS_DLL_PUBLIC_DEF from ws_symbol_export.h, if we're building for Windows with MSVC and WS_BUILD_DLL *isn't* defined.
WS_DLL_PUBLIC is "WS_DLL_PUBLIC_DEF extern".
So you *declare* data items, in header files, with WS_DLL_PUBLIC, and you *define* them, in source files, with WS_DLL_PUBLIC_DEF.
