Re: Question about clisp version naming

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 3/17/2015 9:47 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> A .def file can be used for two purposes:
>
> 1) to specify which symbols to export in a DLL/EXE, in place of
> dllexport or -Wl,--export-all-symbols (EXPORTS)
>
> 2) to resolve symbols by declaring them in other DLL/EXE(s), in place of
> a .dll.a (IMPORTS)

Thanks.  That's very clear.

> It appears that they were trying to use the same .def file for both
> linking lisp.exe (EXPORTS) and the dynmods (IMPORTS), and that is
> invalid syntax.  However, according to your paste, lisp.exe is already
> linked with -Wl,--export-all-symbols, so lisp.def EXPORTS isn't needed
> when linking lisp.exe, only when linking the dynmods.  So removing
> EXPORTS and leaving in IMPORTS should work.

And indeed it does.  I've still got a couple of things to clean up, but 
I expect to upload a new clisp soon that no longer uses lisp.dll.  I 
hope that will solve the Maxima problem

Ken