Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-mingw (34 mails)

[Tor Lillqvist <tml@xxxxxx>]

> Yup, I agree about *.la. I guess the same holds for *.dll.a files?

No, why would it? .dll.a files should be distributed.

(I don't think GNU ld's ability to use a DLL directly for import
information should be used except in cases where absolutely needed.)

> What about *.def files? I am thinking of facilitating people wanting
> to link against dynamic libraries on Windows using MSVC. Do they need
> a .def file or is the DLL enough, just like it is for cross-compiling
> with mingw?

It is easier for them if a .def file is distributed, because then they
need to know just how to run lib.exe to generate the import library.
Sure, you can generate a .def file from a DLL too, but it is more
convoluted, either using pexports or gendef, or link -dump -exports
and some manual editing.

> May be somebody who actually links against OBS binaries on
> Windows can answer this.

Yeah, good point, I am not sure there are such people anyway;)

> It seems libintl is another exception.

For "my" (no longer updated) binaries, I stopped using the static
proxy-libintl in the end, and just link normally to the libintl DLL
(which I insisted calling "intl.dll" for backward compatibility).

> Well, the binaries from Tor on ftp.gnome.org always included pixman
> statically in cairo,

That was just a quick decision without much thought back when the
separate pixman was introduced, and I stubbornly held on to it. If I
would have continues doing builds, I would probably have switched to a
normal dynamic pixman library like on Linux. Don't needlessly follow
my ideas here...

--tml
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