From 64dceda8e3f822ca510daedf038810a22e724dbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Hill <johill@lanl.gov>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:16:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add extern keyword to file scope variable definition for
 visual C++ depite the fact that their doc indicates that this is not
 required.

---
 src/libCom/misc/shareLib.h | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/libCom/misc/shareLib.h b/src/libCom/misc/shareLib.h
index 2d77977a1..3cd1d4d8d 100644
--- a/src/libCom/misc/shareLib.h
+++ b/src/libCom/misc/shareLib.h
@@ -109,8 +109,13 @@
 	 * (Those using either ... or va_list arguments)
 	 */
 #	define epicsShareAPIV __cdecl
+    /* 
+     * visual C++ appears to require extern even
+     * in the variable/objects definition? This
+     * does not match their documentation.
+     */
 #	if defined(EPICS_DLL_NO) /* this indicates that we are not building a DLL */
-#		define epicsShareDef
+#		define epicsShareDef extern 
 #	else
 #		define epicsShareDef __declspec(dllexport) extern
 #	endif