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Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v5 3/8] kvargs: adding a module
	definition file
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:55:41 +0100
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26/03/2019 14:37, Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran:
> On Tue, 2019-03-26 at 10:58 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > However, my hope is that down the road we can have the def file
> > generated
> > from the map file (or potentially vice versa). Perhaps the meson
> > python
> > module could be used to allow us to script it a bit.
> 
> Make sense. Do we want to support shared lib for Windows for the first
> version? or Can we live with static lib till we find a proper solution.
> I do believe the base Windows Helloworld support needs to added this
> release in main repo and add the subsequent features step by step.
> I would treat, shared lib as subsequent feature if it is not clean.

I agree, shared library can be supported later.