[Speex-dev] Library export file for Win32 (patch)

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Jean-Marc Valin wrote:

> Just curious (I've never compiled Speex on Win32 myself), 

Lucky you :-).

> why the @1,
> @2, ... at the end of the lines. Is that for a different compiler or
> something?

Windows, identifies functions exported from a DLL by ordinal number
rather than function name. These ordinal numbers can be specified 
in the .def file using the

    @<number>

notation.

If you don't explicitly set them and then add a new function, the
compiler might change the number to function mapping and hence
break binary compatibility across releases.


Yes, windows is broken :-).

Erik
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