[vtkusers] MinGW visibility attribute not supported warning

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Sascha Zelzer
<s.zelzer at dkfz-heidelberg.de>wrote:

> 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
>
> Thanks - I will get that in today. It is good to clear up the expected
behavior on MinGW too.

Marcus
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