[ros-dev] Autogenerating compiler specific .def files

[KJK::Hyperion]

Let me chime in, before you get yourselves in another mess

> For your information: As there were no more comments on this, I started
> working on a tool now, which transforms .spec files into both GNU and MSVC
> .def files.

You _do_ know that Microsoft's linker tools have only limited support
for .def files, right? That you cannot create __stdcall exports without
also exporting the decoration, unless the functions were marked as
__declspec(dllexport)? and that in the latter case it's much easier to
let the linker process the compiled .obj files to extract the dllexport
directives to produce a .exp and a .lib file? hence, that the best way
to produce import/export libraries is to turn the .spec file not into a
.def, but into a .c/.cpp with dummy implementations of each function and
a __declspec(dllexport) attribute, compile it and run the linker on the
generated .obj file? Spare yourself the pain I went through. Think about it