Re: Re: Building OpenOffice.org with GNU make

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Martin Hollmichel
<[email protected]> wrote:

>>> one problem right now is that the usage of linker mapfiles (e.g.
>>> sal/util/sal.map) are not straight supported by cmake, unfortunately all
>>> the
>>> creation of several win32 import libraries are dependent to such
>>> mechanism,
>>> only some of the OOo Libs support the declspec(dllexport) or the Unix
>>> visibility mechanisms. so here some work is required.
>>
>> I'll try to look into this.
>>
>
> thanks,

I looked into it and got lost in a twisty passage of makefiles, Perl
scripts and lib/a/so files. Could someone give a brief description on
how the system works. Specifically how the different files are
processed and what is finally passed to the linker.

Another question is whether the map files currently solve any problem
that cannot be dealt with native symbol visibility settings?