RFR: JDK-8200358 Remove mapfiles for JDK executables

[Erik Joelsson]

On 2018-04-04 00:42, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2018-04-03 23:16, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>> Looks good to me at least. Exporting symbols from executables seems 
>> wrong so applying hidden as default seems good to me.
> Unfortunately, it was not this easy. :-(
>
> Out of paranoia, I also started a test run on Windows, even though it 
> should not have been affected. Well, "should not". The added JNIEXPORT 
> turns into a __declspec(dllexport) on Windows, which causes the 
> Microsoft linker to behave like when linking a dll, so it creates a 
> .lib and .exp for each binary, in the bin directory.
>
> *sigh*
>
> I see two ways out of this.
>
> 1) Make the JNIEXPORT conditional on OS. Either by #ifdef before the 
> main function, or by declaring something like EXEC_EXPORT instead, and 
> let it be empty on Windows.
>
> 2) Let the part of SetupNativeCompilation that handles executables 
> behave more like the one for shared libraries, and setting -implib, 
> etc. I'm not sure what happens if you pass in -implib when linking an 
> executable which does *not* have any dllexport decorations. If it 
> breaks, then this does not really seem like a way forward. Otherwise, 
> it's probably the safest choice, since it will make sure we never leak 
> any *.lib or *.exp for a potential future executable.
>
> What do you think?
>
I really don't know which I would prefer. Would be good to find out what 
happens in 2.

/Erik