Re: Building on MinGW using MXE-built dependencies [WAS: Re: mxe-installer try 2]

[John W. Eaton]

On 06/11/2013 04:18 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:

> On my list is finding out how to build using mxe-octave on Windows 7
> 64-bit,

I'm starting to try the same thing now, so maybe we can help each other 
and make it work.

> as that runs on my fastest dev box (the build I referred to runs
> on an older Core Duo desktop).
> I consistently get configure messages that "gcc cannot build
> executables", with the log mentioning that ld cannot find a.o.,
> -ladvapi32. Now, advapi32.dll and friends are in the C:\Windows\system32
> dir which *is* in the MinGW PATH as /c/windows/system32. I've
> experimented with LDFLAGS and other tricks to no avail :-) Google didn't
> turn up a solution yet.
> I think this is a very MinGW-specific issue.

This is with the 64-bit mingw and tools?  Why is it trying to link with 
advapi32?  If that is normal, then where is that dependency coming from? 
 Is it explicitly listed in some Makefiles?

jwe