[webkit-dev] Exporting symbols (was Re: Common build system (was Re: WebKit Wishes))

[Eric Seidel]

I should have been more clear.  By "which require lists of exported
symbols", I meant "which require lists of exported symbols for WebCore".
 The Internals discussion is obviously about WebCore symbols which are
exported through WebKit as well.  It seems no other symbols from WebCore
should ever be exported from WebKit on any port besides "Internals" symbols.

On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:

> What I've learned from this thread, is that AppleWin and AppleMac are the
> only two ports which require lists of exported symbols.  If both were to
> convert to using EXPORT decorators instead, then we could remove needs for
> fixing export lists.
>
> Please correct me if I've misunderstood.
>
> Other ports (including GTK), it seems need an internals-specific export
> macro, in order to export window.internals necessary symbols from their
> WebKit dynamic library.  I believe this is true of all ports (with the
> possible exception of Chromium).
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Martin Robinson <mrobinson at webkit.org>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
>> > Doesn't GTK+ port also require symbol exports for WebKit2? In
>> particular, I
>> > thought all symbols used in Internals need to be exported there.
>>
>> WebKitGTK+ does not need to export symbols from WebCore for WebKit2,
>> because WebCore is built as a static convenience library. We do need
>> to export symbols for the Internals library because it's built as a
>> separate object that links against libwebkitgtk. Adding an export
>> macro for Internals would be great for us, since we wouldn't have to
>> export so many symbols via Source/autotools/symbols.filter. It would
>> also decrease the maintenance burden for non-GTK+ port contributors.
>>
>> --Martin
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