On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Jan 2011, Dan Fandrich wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, unit tests are impossible to run against a dynamic library
>> when --enable-hidden-symbols is used. That's the whole point of
>> --enable-hidden-symbols and can't be overcome.
>>
>
> Exactly. And I believe Windows DLLs have the similar concept: it restricts
> "access" to an explicit set of symbols.
>
> So when we want to unit test other functions we need another way to reach
> them.
>
> Also, the existance of many static functions may force us to do a separate
> build for unit tests anyway.
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
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What does --enable-hidden-symbols exactly do ?

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