Re: warning C4251: 'CObj1::m_Obj2 : class 'CObj2' needs to have dll-interface to be used by clients of class 'CObj1'
Stephen Howe <sjhoweATdialDOTpipexDOTcom> wrote:
I have bog-standard Win32 DLL, and it has an export header file like
so
#ifdef MOD_EXPORTS
#define MOD_API __declspec(dllexport)
#else
#define MOD_API __declspec(dllimport)
#endif
class MOD_API CObj1
{
private:
CObj2 m_Obj2;
};
Now CObj2 resides in a proper library file (not an import library but
a real library)
Both the Win32 DLL and the proper library use the RTL in DLL form yet
I am getting
warning C4251: 'CObj1::m_Obj2 : class 'CObj2' needs to have
dll-interface to be used by clients of class 'CObj1'
How do I eliminate this warning correctly (I dont mean shut the
compiler up with a pragma, but I do if the warning is spurious)? For
that matter, how do I give CObj2 a DLL interface?
You give it a DLL interface the same way you gave it to CObj1:
class MOD_API CObj2 {...};
The compiler probably could have realized that m_Obj2 is private and =
inaccessible to clients of CObj1, but it doesn't. It assumes that, if a =
class is exported to a DLL, all its members' types should also be =
exported.
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