[PD-dev] Question about error in external

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On 01/18/2013 06:33 AM, IOhannes zmölnig wrote:
> On 01/18/2013 10:41 AM, Thomas Mayer wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> while I am working on PuREST JSON, I have gotten an interesting error,
>> but only on Windows:
>>
>> Two of my objects do not load correctly with the message:
>>
>> load_object: Symbol "rest_setup" not found
>>
>> On Linux, this works without any problems, as do the other objects in
>> Windows.
>>
>> What is different with [rest] and [oauth] objects? Both are using a lot
> 
> on w32 you have to explictely export symbols from a dll, in order to be able
> to use them from another dll (e.g. pd).
> either with  the "/export" linker-flag or with the __declspec(dllexport)
> attribute.

I think MinGW handles this for you, which compiler are you using on Windows?

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