From d7d948db0d9b8801afdde4f8867e4e3b94363af2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jussi Pakkanen Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 23:28:38 +0300 Subject: Update documentation for symbol visibility. --- docs/markdown/snippets/visibility.md | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/markdown/snippets/visibility.md (limited to 'docs/markdown/snippets') diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/visibility.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/visibility.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f55a48f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/visibility.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +## Keyword argument for symbol visibility + +Build targets got a new keyword, `symbol_visibility` that controls how +symbols are exported from shared libraries. This is most commonly used +to hide implementation symbols like this: + +```meson +shared_library('mylib', ... + symbol_visibility: 'hidden') +``` + +In this case only symbols explicitly marked as visible in the source +files get exported. -- cgit v1.1 From fb2cdd0fe2797b30e1fd4c118407302402739a3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jussi Pakkanen Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 19:46:45 +0300 Subject: Call it gnu_symbol_visibility instead. --- docs/markdown/snippets/visibility.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/markdown/snippets') diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/visibility.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/visibility.md index f55a48f..4b67105 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/snippets/visibility.md +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/visibility.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -## Keyword argument for symbol visibility +## Keyword argument for GNU symbol visibility Build targets got a new keyword, `symbol_visibility` that controls how symbols are exported from shared libraries. This is most commonly used @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ to hide implementation symbols like this: ```meson shared_library('mylib', ... - symbol_visibility: 'hidden') + gnu_symbol_visibility: 'hidden') ``` In this case only symbols explicitly marked as visible in the source -- cgit v1.1