why providing a .def file

[Renzo Tomaselli]

Hi folks,
	I'm quite new to this list. I installed OmniORB2 on Win95; its runs fine.
I run into troubles when trying to recompile it for the debug version under
MSVC 5.0; the provided .def file doesn't match all compiled symbols, so I
had to exclude a lot of symbols from it (I believe they are really
unnecessary outside). I had similar problems when trying first to compile
the standard version under MSVC 4.0, since Microsoft changed the mangling
rules after 4.0.
So here is the big question: why not putting _OMNIORB_NTDLL_ in front of
all really exported classes and forgetting about providing a .def file ? As
far as I know this is the standard way for Win32. I even tried that way,
however all ORB/BOA stuff is not marked as exported along their class
definitions, so examples don't link.
A further question: why not providing the workspace (or project) files for
MSVC under Win32 ? They provide helpful support when debugging, and the
released makefiles seem generated from that source anyway.
Thanks,

		Renzo Tomaselli      
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