In VC++ 8, does "Disable Language Extensions" mean no __declspec?

In VC++ 8, does "Disable Language Extensions" mean no __declspec?

• Domer

  I don't suppose there is a way to tell the linker to export everything is there
  
  Edit:  I'm actually working with generated code, and I cannot change the code generator.  The problem is the generator doesn't put the __declspec on everything that I need, and maintaining a a .def file would become a nightmare (the generated code is around 200,000 lines total).  So either option would be close to a nightmare.
  
  

• Patrick8

  This seems to be my best option, given my choices.
  
  Thanks for the idea,
  Clay
  
  

  Brian_Kramer wrote:

  It doesn't look like fun, except possibly if you're a hardcore Unix shell user.

  
  haha.
  
  

• Gioking

  The only way I know of is to parse the MAP file. 
  
  You generate the MAP file by selecting Yes for Linker->Debugging->Generate Map File.   You then would need to pick out the right symbols, perhaps by picking out the values under the Lib:Object column for which an object file is not qualified with a module name (meaning it's your own obj file).
  
  (Internal builds for MFC DLL's used to be done this way.  It would grab everything from the MAP file, and filter out symbols from a hand-coded list.)
  
  It doesn't look like fun, except possibly if you're a hardcore Unix shell user.
  
  Brian
  
  
  
  

  
  

• JustinCase864

  If you have sed.exe or are willing to download it from SourceForge (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm), I think the following may be sufficient to get the list of symbols.
  
  type dlltest.map | findstr .obj | sed s/......// | findstr /v : | sed s/...............// | sed s/" .*"//
  4Cdlltest@@QAEAAV0@ABV0@@Z
  _DllMain@12
  fndlltest@@YAHXZ
  0Cdlltest@@QAE@XZ
  ndlltest@@3HA
  
  In order, the one-liner:
  1. echos the map file
  2. gets lines containing ".obj"
  3. removes the first few characters containing the unimportant : character
  4. filters out lines containing the important : character that distinguishes your symbols from other symbols
  5. strips characters before the symbol
  6. strips characters after the symbol
  
  You could then construct the def file from this list.
  
  Brian
  
  PS Not an elegant use of sed, but the differing number of columns seems to preclude a more elegant pattern match.
  
  

  
  

• Claire O

  No, none of the definitions get exported. 
  
  DLL exportation is done by the linker, and there are two ways the linker is told to export something:
  
  1. When you enter the symbol in the project's DEF file.
  2. When a symbol is decorated with __declspec( dllexport ).
  
  More info on the first method:
  
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vccore98/html/_core_export_from_a_dll_using_..def_files.asp.
  
  If you end up creating a DEF file, the VS2005 linker setting to specify the file is Linker->Input->Module Definition File.
  
  The second method came sometime after the first method, since maintaining DEF files get pretty tiresome, especially for C++ symbols.
  
  Brian
  
  
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