From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@...>
Date: 2010-07-19T21:02:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:31352] --export-all revisited

Hi . Noted that in 1.9.x the "--export-all" parameter has been removed
from creating shared libraries for extensions, presumably to try and
not "pollute as much" the link space [1]

However this requires *all* authors who want their gems to compile on
windows to add this rather ugly, non-intuitive block:

 #if defined(_WIN32)
__declspec(dllexport)
 #endif

 void init_LibName() {}

Is this anticipated and/or desired?
Thanks.
-r

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/browse_thread/thread/d7607e6bccfb769c/00e14f4106a46579?lnk=gst&q=%22--export-all%22#00e14f4106a46579