> > I am sort of interested. What sort of issues? As I dont really follow MESS too > > closely. > > > > MESS was built as a single large .dll with two smaller exe (MESS and MESSUI) which > used extensively the .dll. the issue was that this made debugging with GDB basically > useless (symbols got basically lost in the .dll passage)
Uh ... so, when you want to do debugging, build a static version; this doesn't preclude using a .dll mechanism for normal non-debugging use.
Also I don't know why symbols would be lost. I debug all of the time with mame compiled as a shared library (.so on Linux) and this works just fine, I've never had a problem.
I'm not sure who in their right mind would do debugging on Windows anyway. I find it to be far too flaky to trust with intense debugging sessions.
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