[ODE] Why no __declspec(dllexport)

[gl]

> It strikes me as another attempt by Microsoft to provide a non-standard
> way of doing something, to make it harder for people to support both
> Windows & other platforms.  When you're the biggest platform, this helps
> you and hurts others.  But maybe it was well intentioned mechanism that
> in retrospect has some big disadvantages.

Sigh.  It's useful.  You can apply it to everything - eg. an entire class,
or just some select members (as well as global variables/functions).

I've never done it, but I believe the alternative is to manually compile
(and manually maintain) a .def file?  If so, I'm glad it's there.
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gl