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Diffstat (limited to 'src/liblzma/api/lzma.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/liblzma/api/lzma.h | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/liblzma/api/lzma.h b/src/liblzma/api/lzma.h index f5ab30d1..5be9b4e3 100644 --- a/src/liblzma/api/lzma.h +++ b/src/liblzma/api/lzma.h @@ -162,10 +162,9 @@ ******************/ /* - * Some systems require (or at least recommend) that the functions and - * function pointers are declared specially in the headers. LZMA_API_IMPORT - * is for importing symbols and LZMA_API_CALL is to specify calling - * convention. + * Some systems require that the functions and function pointers are + * declared specially in the headers. LZMA_API_IMPORT is for importing + * symbols and LZMA_API_CALL is to specify the calling convention. * * By default it is assumed that the application will link dynamically * against liblzma. #define LZMA_API_STATIC in your application if you @@ -174,11 +173,14 @@ * against static liblzma on them, don't worry about LZMA_API_STATIC. That * is, most developers will never need to use LZMA_API_STATIC. * - * Cygwin is a special case on Windows. We rely on GCC doing the right thing - * and thus don't use dllimport and don't specify the calling convention. + * The GCC variants are a special case on Windows (Cygwin and MinGW). + * We rely on GCC doing the right thing with its auto-import feature, + * and thus don't use __declspec(dllimport). This way developers don't + * need to worry about LZMA_API_STATIC. Also the calling convention is + * omitted on Cygwin but not on MinGW. */ #ifndef LZMA_API_IMPORT -# if !defined(LZMA_API_STATIC) && defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__) +# if !defined(LZMA_API_STATIC) && defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__GNUC__) # define LZMA_API_IMPORT __declspec(dllimport) # else # define LZMA_API_IMPORT |