Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] gd: define required for static linking (NONDLL)

[Natalie Tasman]

Thanks again, Tony.  In my test I'm using autotools and libtool, so
there is probably some additional complexity there that requires the
NONDLL define.

-Natalie


On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Tony Theodore <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 16 June 2010 18:06, Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Tony Theodore <address@hidden> schrieb:
>>> On 16 June 2010 10:26, Natalie Tasman <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> > I'm getting link errors with gd which look like dynamic
>>> > implementations are expect for the static library.
>>> >
>>> > I checked i686-pc-mingw32-pkg-config, but it seems that gd doesn't use
>>> > packageconfig (no corresponding .pc file.)
>>>
>>> It seems to use it's own gdlib-config which you'll find in
>>> usr/$(TARGET)/bin. The --cflags option should return -DNONDLL.
>>
>> Does "gdlib-config --libs" (or similar) return the complete set
>> of libraries required to link to gd statically? If not, we should
>> provide a way without the "-DNONDLL" option, i.e. performing the
>> mentioned $(SED) hack instead of manipulating gdlib-config.
>
> There's already a $(SED) hack for gdlib-config.in and almost does the
> right thing, it's missing -lgd :
>
> $ usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/gdlib-config --cflags --libs
> -I/Users/tonytheodore/dev/mingw-cross-env/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/include -DNONDLL
> -ljpeg -lfreetype -lpng -lz
> -L/Users/tonytheodore/dev/mingw-cross-env/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/lib
> -lxml2 -lz -liconv -lws2_32
>
>
>> In order to figure that out, it would be great to have simple
>> test programm as we had for libarchive.
>>
>> That way, we could ensure that "gdlib-config" will always be
>> sufficient, now as well as in future versions.
>
> I've attached a simple test program that I modified from one of the
> examples. Oddly the test program builds and runs correctly with just
> -lgd -lpng -lz specified. It doesn't seem to need -DNONDLL.
>
> Tony
>
> P.S. The attached also includes the previous changes for libpng14
>