Re: Building shared libs (DLL) under Cygwin (1.8.4)

[Cesar Strauss]

Neil Jerram wrote:
> "Aaron Turner" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I'm trying to rebuild Guile 1.8.4 under Cygwin (latest stable) because
> > the Cygwin packages seem to have some serious problems (I've been told
> > it was built with the wrong version of gcc).  Everything seems ok
> > (configure && make report no errors), but when it's all said and done,
> > all I get is a static library. [snip]

Please try this:

make clean
libtoolize --copy --force
./configure
make
make install

It seems the particular version of libtool included in guile 1.8.4 is 
somewhat broken on mingw/cygwin. The above worked for me on both platforms.

> I would suggest working with the Cygwin people on this.  They are more
> likely to be familiar with this kind of issue (which probably comes
> from how the autotools work on Cygwin), and if there's a problem with
> the current Guile in Cygwin, it would be much better to fix that for
> all Cygwin users.

I agree, that would be best.

> (FWIW, when I last updated a couple of weeks ago, the Cygwin Guile
> version was 1.8.2.  I've been using that successfully and haven't seen
> any critical problems.  I did see a problem with open-input-pipe
> hanging, but worked around that by writing to a temporary file instead
> and then re-reading from that file.)

As far as I could follow the discussion, it seems the Autogen tool used 
to crash frequently, but worked when Guile was compiled from source.

Regards,
Cesar