From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bignum branch Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:46:16 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87o9fbbw1t.fsf@tromey.com> <86sh4b1833.fsf@gmail.com> <861sbgz3dm.fsf@gmail.com> <83a7q4ufxp.fsf@gnu.org> <87wot71hpb.fsf@tromey.com> <86in4rgt1m.fsf@gmail.com> <83pnyyu0k1.fsf@gnu.org> <86k1p59haq.fsf@gmail.com> <83va8osuz2.fsf@gnu.org> <87ftzrknyg.fsf@tromey.com> <87zhxwig5k.fsf@tromey.com> <86lg9gl7vy.fsf@gmail.com> <87tvo4i9em.fsf@tromey.com> <86k1ozl0yd.fsf@gmail.com> <83in4iojva.fsf@gnu.org> <86bmaasm39.fsf@gmail.com> <106a9e2f-c275-e4c1-eae1-7d5d0d29b00e@cs.ucla.edu> <831sb6o1a9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533906409 9221 195.159.176.226 (10 Aug 2018 13:06:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:06:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (windows-nt) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 10 15:06:45 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fo77t-0002Jq-82 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:06:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56182 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo79z-0005Eu-Sj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 09:08:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45561) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6oJ-0001wr-0Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:46:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6oE-0000SD-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:46:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=45390 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6oD-0000Qq-P7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:46:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6m4-000209-4L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:44:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:rTDjpfn8c9M+Pr5KyTgKXemkT3s= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228373 Archived-At: On Fri 10 Aug 2018, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Andy Moreton >> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:18:02 +0100 >> >> Both static and dynamic linking work on Windows if the right headers are >> installed to declare functions properly. The fact that the GMP project >> cannot organise its public headers properly is an irritation. > > I think the actual problem is that you cannot request static or > dynamic linking easily, not even by using a -Dsomething cpp option, > not without some jumping through hoops. True, but a -Dsomething cpp option at least allows you to have a single header file (that can add the dllimport decoration if required) based on a choice made in the build script, even if there are complications in ensuring that the choice made for the headers matches the linker options. AndyM