These function aliases have been described as DEPRECATED in the public
API docs already many years ago (see #701, commit 41fc7856), and in
addition explicit deprecation warnings are shown by the compiler at
least since the first official release 0.2.0 (see PR #1089, commit
fc94a2da), so it should be fine to just remove them by now.
Co-authored-by: Tim Ruffing <crypto@timruffing.de>
This should hopefully be useful as orientation for users implementing
the key exchange part of BIP324. Conceptually the example is not very
different to the ECDH one, so a lot of code/comments are just copied
(e.g. context creation, secret key generation, shared secret comparison,
console output, cleanup with secret key clearing).
It is a non-Libtool-specific way to explicitly specify the user's
intention to consume a static `libseck256k1`.
This change allows to get rid of MSVC linker warnings LNK4217 and
LNK4286. Also, it makes possible to merge the `SECP256K1_API` and
`SECP256K1_API_VAR` into one.
There are plenty of unreleased variants of libsecp256k1 version 0.1.0
(libsecp256k1.so.0.0.0) in the wild. We choose a new version number to allow a
clear distinction.
There are variants of 0.1.0 that are incompatible with the initial release,
hence we increase the minor version to arrive at version number 0.2.0. For the
same reason, we increase the LIB_VERSION_CURRENT and keep AGE at 0.
The changelog for 0.2.0 consists of the relevant changes since 2021-12-25, which
is the date when the initial release process PR was merged (and the library
version was set to a pre-release, see 423b6d19d3).
This is somewhat arbitrary but at least points readers to relevant changes.
