Is there a way to prevent installation of .def files?

[realmazharhussain]

I packaged gst-plugins-rs for msys2. The options I use during build/install are --workspace --offline --release --library-type=cdylib --prefix="${MINGW_PREFIX}" --exclude gst-plugin-csound. This installs .def files along with the .dll files.

I can easily remove all the .def files after cinstall has done its thing. But I was wondering if there is any option I can use to prevent .def files from getting installed in the first place?

[lu-zero]

Being plugins probably you may omit the .def generation as you omit the headers generation. @sdroege do you have opinions in this regard?

[realmazharhussain]

My question was more about how?

I don't have any experience developing in rust. So, I don't know how would I omit .def generation.

[lu-zero]

We could add a configuration item to enable/disable the .def generation like we do for the headers since they are logically similar. I wanted @sdroege since he would potentially use the feature in gst.

[realmazharhussain]

Got it. Thanks.

[sdroege]

I don't think it makes sense to ship the .def file. We don't include them in GStreamer for plugins.