Hello, good people, I wanted just to point out some policies we decided when we started this mingw cross-compiling in OBS. These policies were based on our experience with win32 porting. One is that we don't distribute the *.la files. They hard-code the configure time paths and are basically worthless for linking. If something does not link without them there is a problem somewhere else :) Another policy is that we don't distribute static libraries unless there is a huge reason for this. The exception nowadays is the iconv implementation that we use win_iconv, because it only translates between iconv APIs and win32 native APIs and distribute it as a dll would not make any sense, especially that it is not developed as such by the developer. It is true that in the win32 world, many people, me including (Tor will remember) liked to make as much binaries as possible statically linked so that they can distribute only one *.exe. But, from experience, a multitude of dlls is better even for pixman that might be at one point used by something else then cairo. Cheers Fridrich -- Please avoid sending me Word, Excel or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-mingw+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-mingw+help@opensuse.org