[XviD-devel] vlc_codes.h

[Christoph Lampert]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Edouard Gomez wrote:
> 
> And if you know how to export only some function/variables on Unix
> systems... i would realy appreciate you to teach me :)

We can strip whatever we don't need. But for the static lib (which is the
problem) I guess this would only work for symbols that really are not
needed over sourcefile boundaries... 
 
> The xvid_* prefixing rule seems reasonable.

Maybe we could do that automatically when creating the library?
I found that recent version of "GNU objcopy" have an 
--redefine-sym option. Thus one could make a copy of libxvidcore.a and 
rename all exported symbols to the same symbol with a xvid_ in front 
(except for xvid_encore/decore/init of course). 

Apart from that we should really find a solution which doesn't export so
many internal variables. 

Isn't there a way to create a static lib where sourcefiles are
somehow linked to form a new independent object, each knowing the other
ones symbols, but the outside world doesn't? Or is that for shared libs
only? 

gruel