[vtkusers] MinGW visibility attribute not supported warning
Sascha Zelzer
s.zelzer at dkfz-heidelberg.de
Fri Aug 27 08:04:32 EDT 2010
Hi,
when building VTK with MinGW, a lot of visibility warnings ("visibility
attribute not supported in this configuration") are displayed. This is
due to
set(VTK_ABI_CXX_FLAGS "-fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden")
in line 43 of vtkCompilerExtras.cmake. Although MinGW is a gcc variant,
it is not necessary to set the visibility flags if you use
__declspec(export) attributes and don't use --export-all-symbols. See
for example
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/gnu-linker/win32.html
I attached a patch which would fix this issue by not adding the
visibility flags if the compiler is MinGW. Any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks,
Sascha
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