On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Mats Lidell <matsl(a)xemacs.org&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > The recent acons change breaks the cygwin build. acons is exported in > xemacs.def. Removing that from xemacs.def makes the build succeed. > > But before doing that I must ask what is xemacs.def good for. A quick > check in the Makefiles reveals that dlltool is involved. The manpage > for dlltool talks about "Create files needed to build and use DLLs" > But I fail to find any DLLs being built!? Please enlighten me. > > Yours > -- > %% Mats It is used to list the symbols that are visible to external modules. XEmacs isn't really a DLL, but it exports symbols like one, for consumption by the modules.