/* Filename: dtoolsymbols.h
 * Created by:  drose (18Feb00)
 *
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 * PANDA 3D SOFTWARE
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#ifndef DTOOLSYMBOLS_H
#define DTOOLSYMBOLS_H


/*
  This file defines a slew of symbols that have particular meaning
  only when compiling in the WIN32 environment.  These symbols are
  prefixed to each class declaration, and each global function, that
  is to be made visible outside of a DLL.

  The problem is that in Windows, you must prefix each DLL-public
  symbol with "__declspec(dllexport)" when you are compiling the DLL,
  but with "__declspec(dllimport)" when you are compiling code that
  links with the DLL.  This strange convention means that you must, in
  principle, have two different .h files for a DLL: one to use for
  compiling the DLL (it must export all of the symbols), and a
  different one for presenting the public interface for other users to
  use (it must import all of the same symbols).

  In practice, of course, maintaining two different .h files is silly
  and error-prone; almost everyone solves this problem by defining a
  macro that evaluates to "__declspec(dllexport)" in one case and
  "__declspec(dllimport)" in another case.  Many systems use the
  system macro _DLL to switch between these two case, which works well
  in a simple system because _DLL is defined only if compiler is
  currently generating code for a DLL.  So you can export the symbols
  if _DLL is defined, and import them if it is not defined.

  However, this fails if you are compiling a DLL that wants to import
  symbols from another DLL, since in this case _DLL is defined, but
  the symbols in the other DLL need to be imported, not exported.

  In the general case of compiling multiple DLL's that might reference
  each other's symbols, we need have a separate macro for each DLL.
  Then when we are compiling code for each DLL, the macro for that
  particular DLL evaluates to "__declspec(dllexport)", exporting all
  the symbols from the DLL, while all the other DLL's macros evaluate
  to "__declspec(dllimport)", importing all the symbols from the other
  DLL's.

  That is the approach we have taken here in Panda.  When we are
  compiling code for a particular DLL, the build scripts define the
  macro BUILDING_libname on the command line.  This file then uses
  that macro to define EXPCL_libname appropriately for each DLL; this
  macro is then used to prefix each symbol to be exported from the
  DLL.  The macro name stands for "export class", since it is used
  most often to mark a class for export, although the same macro can
  be used to export global functions.  (We also define EXPTP_libname,
  which is used in conjunction with exporting template instantiations,
  another dicey task in Windows.  It is used far less often.)

  Of course, this whole thing only matters under WIN32.  In the rest
  of the world we don't have to deal with this nonsense, and so we
  can define all of these stupid symbols to the empty string.
  */

#define EXPCL_EMPTY

#if defined(WIN32_VC) && !defined(CPPPARSER) && !defined(LINK_ALL_STATIC)

#ifdef BUILDING_DTOOL
  #define EXPCL_DTOOL __declspec(dllexport)
  #define EXPTP_DTOOL
#else
  #define EXPCL_DTOOL __declspec(dllimport)
  #define EXPTP_DTOOL extern
#endif

#ifdef BUILDING_DTOOLCONFIG
  #define EXPCL_DTOOLCONFIG __declspec(dllexport)
  #define EXPTP_DTOOLCONFIG
#else
  #define EXPCL_DTOOLCONFIG __declspec(dllimport)
  #define EXPTP_DTOOLCONFIG extern
#endif

#ifdef BUILDING_MISC
  #define EXPCL_MISC __declspec(dllexport)
  #define EXPTP_MISC
#else /* BUILDING_MISC */
  #define EXPCL_MISC __declspec(dllimport)
  #define EXPTP_MISC extern
#endif /* BUILDING_MISC */

#else   /* !WIN32_VC */

#define EXPCL_DTOOL
#define EXPTP_DTOOL

#define EXPCL_DTOOLCONFIG
#define EXPTP_DTOOLCONFIG

#define EXPCL_MISC
#define EXPTP_MISC

#endif  /* WIN32_VC */

#endif