win32/README win32/Makefile.am win32/dummy.la win32/libemiscwidgets.def

2005-06-15  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>

	* win32/README
	* win32/Makefile.am
	* win32/dummy.la
	* win32/libemiscwidgets.def
	* win32/libevolution-addressbook.def
	* win32/libevolution-calendar.def
	* win32/libevolution-mail.def
	* win32/libfilter.def: New files. Build bootstrap import libraries
	for some of Evolution's DLLs to work around circular dependencies
	between some of the shared libraries. Circular dependecies are
	problematic on Win32 where one can't have undefined symbols in
	executables (or shared libraries).

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+This directory contains .def files for some of the DLLs in
+Evolution. They are used to build bootstrap import libraries for these
+DLLs in advance before they have actually been built. This is
+necessary because Evolution's shared libraries have circular
+dependencies, and one can't have unresolved symbols when building
+shared libraries on Win32.
+
+These .def files aren't used when building the actual DLLs in
+question. They are only used to produce bootstrap import libraries for
+them. Thus a .def file for libFOO here doesn't list all the actual
+entry points in libFOO, only those that are used by other DLLs that
+are built before libFOO. When the actual libFOO is built, we rely on
+the GNU linker's auto-export to export all public symbols.