[mythtv] Ticket #4516: Fix broken Win32 build (circular references out of control again).

[Nigel Pearson]

On 24/01/2008, at 8:44 AM, Andrei Tanas wrote:
>
> I will elaborate on this: with this change, global variables (gContext
> specifically) is "seen" as having different addresses when  
> referenced by
> code from different files. For example, when mythfrontend/main.cpp
> initializes gContext, the variable will be assigned the address of  
> the new
> instance. However, when referenced by code from libmythupnp (don't  
> know
> about others, couldn't get past this one), it will think that the  
> value of
> gContext is something else (seemed random to me, don't know where  
> it got if
> from).

Thanks. That is helpful.

(although I don't know why it is only a problem with globals
  - if a symbol is defined in lib*bootstrap.a,
    then that is what should be used by the local lib)


I will try and research dlltool to see what options there are.
I'm hoping that there is some way to specify a symbol,
but without actually defining a global in lib*bootstrap.a


Note that I haven't had time to play in MinGW today,
and have a lot of work to do, so this may take a few days.
But I'm hoping we can use this structure without reverting.

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