Explicitly exporting shared library functions in Linux

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Is there a Linux equivalent of __declspec(dllexport) notation for explicitly exporting a function from a shared library? For some reason with the toolchain I'm using, functions that aren't class members don't appear in the resulting shared library file.

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Solution 1 - C++

__attribute__((visibility("default")))

And there is no equivalent of __declspec(dllimport) to my knowledge.

#if defined(_MSC_VER)
    //	Microsoft 
    #define EXPORT __declspec(dllexport)
    #define IMPORT __declspec(dllimport)
#elif defined(__GNUC__)
    //	GCC
    #define EXPORT __attribute__((visibility("default")))
    #define IMPORT
#else
    //	do nothing and hope for the best?
    #define EXPORT
    #define IMPORT
    #pragma warning Unknown dynamic link import/export semantics.
#endif

Typical usage is to define a symbol like MY_LIB_PUBLIC conditionally define it as either EXPORT or IMPORT, based on if the library is currently being compiled or not:

#if MY_LIB_COMPILING
#   define MY_LIB_PUBLIC EXPORT
#else
#   define MY_LIB_PUBLIC IMPORT
#endif

To use this, you mark your functions and classes like this:

MY_LIB_PUBLIC void foo();

class MY_LIB_PUBLIC some_type
{
    // ...
};

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