[sane-devel] [RFC] On libsane symbols visibility

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> writes:

> "Ilia Sotnikov" <hostcc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My suggestion is to mark the functions which are part of SANE API as
>> exportable (__attribute__ ((visibility("default"))) symbol attribute
>> and its companion, -fvisibility=hidden). It will give us the necessary
>> result - only explicitly marked symbols will be visible. In ideal
>> case, 'make libcheck' wouldn't be necessary anymore. The above
>> mentioned attribute and command line switch is a GCC extension.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> SANE traditionally builds with non-gcc compilers too, so this is kind
> of a no-go for the gcc-deprived (or the gcc-sucks-no-way-I-use-it,
> YMMV) :)

Seconded, but sane-backends uses libtool so I think you can achieve
what you are trying to quite easily without modifying sources using
one of the following options:

  -export-symbols SYMFILE
                    try to export only the symbols listed in SYMFILE
  -export-symbols-regex REGEX
                    try to export only the symbols matching REGEX

Haven't tried this myself so YMMV.

Hope this helps,
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