Re: MinGW & library_names

[Albert Chin]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 01:52:03PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> For MinGW (and probably Cygwin), libtool includes .dll.a file names in 
> the library_names definition in .la files associated with DLLs. 
> These files are only valuable for linking.  However, libltdl invokes 
> LoadLibrary on all files listed in library_names as well as for all 
> other libtool libraries which are depended on.  This means that 
> Windows is attempting to load a non-loadable file.
> 
> Apparently this is not noticed under Cygwin since Cywin has altered 
> Windows error handling.  I have successfully altered Windows error 
> handling as well in my copy of ltdl.c.  This approach is "cheating" 
> and might effect the dependent application.
> 
> It does not appear that the .dll.a names can be removed from the .la 
> files, so it seems like libltdl should be doing some filtering on the 
> names so that only .dll files are loaded under Windows.  Does this 
> seem reasonable?

If *.dll.a is still needed in library_names in the .la file, I guess
there is no choice. Seems icky though.

-- 
albert chin (address@hidden)