Hello Richard.

Thank you for your suggestion. I am sending a patch update according to it.

> How about avoiding the clash by using the names HIDDEN, SYMBOL_TYPE and
> SYMBOL_SIZE, with SYMBOL_TYPE taking the symbol type as argument?

Yes, unless the symbol is explicitly exported using `__declspec(dllexport)`, it will be effectively hidden.

> What's the practical effect of not marking the symbols as hidden on
> mingw32?  Will they still be local to the DLL/EXE, since they haven't
>been explicitly exported?  (Sorry for the probably dumb question.)

Best regards,

Radek Bartọ