[MESOS-5994] Add Windows support for modules

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Accepted
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Labels: mesosphere modules windows
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Joseph Wu
• Shepherd: Joseph Wu
• Created: 04/Aug/16 21:28
• Updated: 02/Oct/18 21:45

Description

Modules are currently not supported on Windows due to a couple limitations:

• GCC and Clang export all symbols to shared libraries by default. MSVC has the opposite behavior and does not export any symbols by default. To properly create a shared library on Windows, one must __declspec(dllexport) every single exposed function/class.
• CMake 3.4+ has utilities for auto-generating exports, but upgrading the CMake requirement has other version incompatibilities.
• We can't load a statically linked module due to a runtime check in the protobuf library.

For now, module-related code is not compiled on Windows.

Issue Links

• blocks: MESOS-9042 Move SASL based CRAM-MD5 authentication out of libmesos.