Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Building dynamic libs (was: Anyway to remove installed packages ?)

[KangJing Huang]

To Tony:

Thx for your response, I'll check out these scripts when I'm back at work.

BTW, I noticed your multi-target and multi-rebase branches… I think its idea would be nice yet a little bit confused about how it works and how to use it……Also do you have any plans placing dynamic building into your multi-target infrastructure?

Sincerely,
Huang.

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> On 24/04/2013, at 2:20 AM, Huang KangJing <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Also, I noticed that MXE would only link staticly. For quite a long
> > time, static link worked fine for me, but recently I met with some
> > situation that I would have to use dynamic linking.
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> > I know MXE would not support dynamic linking, but as I am not familiar
> > with libarary configuration, I wonder if anyone can give me any
> > general instructions on how to modify *.mk files to make them build
> > dynamic dlls.
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> The general way would be to toggle the "--disable-shared --enable-static" configure options, but you'd need to watch out for patches that are specific to static linking (e.g. atk-1-DllMain.patch, pthreads-1-fixes.patch) and different configuration systems (any of the cmake packages, qt, zlib).
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> mxe-octave has an interesting approach to create a shared lib from a static one[1] and also a shared qt[2], though I haven't tried using it.
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> Cheers,
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> Tony
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> [1] http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/file/tip/tools/make-shared-from-static
> [2] http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/file/tip/src/qt.mk
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