MinGW & library_names

[Bob Friesenhahn]

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?

Bob
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