gtk2-x11: Functions whose name started with '_'

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

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Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
| Hello Yaakov,
|
| To remove the -export-symbols option and make the DLL to export all
| symbols (also the private)?  Hmmm, I'm no friend of using .def files
| at all, but I'm not sure if is the right thing to simply export all
| symbols.
|
| The application authors should not use private symbols.  If there is
| need to use those functions and there are no public functions which do
| the same thing, then they may go to the GTK folks and convince them
| that the specific function should be made public instead of private.
|
| What do the GTK developers say about the private / public functions
| issue, was there discussion on the GTK lists already?
|
| What do the application authors say?  Simply "Rebuild your GTK if
| these symbols are not available"?

In theory you're 100% correct, but in practice it appears otherwise.  I
admit that I have not investigated this issue myself, rather I'm
trusting Hansom Young on what he said.  If it's indeed true that the big
linux distros don't "follow the rules", that's a pretty big precedent,
isn't it?

Yaakov
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