I am in the midst of evaluating the benefits of changing our program from 30+ statically linked libraries to 30+ dynamically linked libraries. We hope by changing to DLL, it will reduce the link time.
One immediate problem is the requirement to add __declspec in front of all the classes to create the lib file for other dlls to link. Is there a way to get around that? Is there a flag in the compiler to force a lib generation so to make all classes inside the DLL available for export? If not, is there any existing script/program that will do that? That will certainly make the switch from statically linked library to a dynamic one a lot easier. If not, what is the rationale behind __declspec? Why not an option to make all dll functions exportable?
Thank you.