Re: MinGW & library_names

[Albert Chin]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 04:17:36PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Albert Chin wrote:
> 
> >If *.dll.a is still needed in library_names in the .la file, I guess
> >there is no choice. Seems icky though.
> >
> 
> It's because library_names is used for multiple purposes by the libtool 
> machinery and by libltdl.  One is the names that can be linked against 
> (.a, .dll.a, and .dll), while the other is the names that can be 
> dlopen/LoadLibrary'ed (.a, .dll).
> 
> On (all?) other platforms, those two sets are identical; on 
> cygwin/windows, they are not.

Then how about we add dlopen_library_names to .la files on systems
where it is needed?

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albert chin (address@hidden)