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Undefined symbol errors when consuming the library as shared/dynamic
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Descripción
The `"-fvisibility=hidden"` (see [CMakeLists.txt#L77](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-cpp/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L77)) in `CMakeLists.txt` causes undefined symbols errors when using this library as shared object.
It's not a problem when using it as a static library because visibility settings doesn't affect that by design.
There are multiple solutions for this problem:
1. Just remove `"-fvisibility=hidden"`. We are currently using this approach as a workaround because we currently don't have many symbols to be considered private, this may be a viable option.
2. Keep `"-fvisibility=hidden"` and manually annotate symbols intended to be public with: `__attribute__((visibility("default")))`, however, this will require a significant amount of effort.
3. Replace `"-fvisibility=hidden"` with `"-fvisibility=default"` and manually annotate symbols intended to be private with `__attribute__((visibility("hidden")))`
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Línea de trabajo
Comienza con la configuración de visibilidad en CMakeLists.txt#L77 y reproduce los errores de símbolos no definidos al consumir la biblioteca como un objeto compartido. Compara los enfoques de visibilidad enumerados y confirma que el cambio elegido mantiene el uso como biblioteca estática a la vez que expone los símbolos requeridos por los consumidores de bibliotecas compartidas.
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- cmake, cpp
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- build-system
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- Error
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- 3-5 días
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