Re: d3dx9.lib is not managed by ld, but libd3dx9.a is

[Peter Rosin]

Den 2009-06-07 08:52 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
> * Roumen Petrov wrote on Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:54:24PM CEST:
> > GNU compiler(mingw) use suffix '.a'  for static library and '.dll.a' for  
> > import libraries.
> > If a xx.lib file is found in search path libtool has to process file and  
> > to find its type(static/import). This impact performance.
>
> Well, yes.  The expensive part should only happen when we already have a
> candidate library, however, so it should not happen too often.  And
> correctness trumps performance.
>
> Is this perchance fixed already in the pr-msvc-support branch?

Yes. The branch will look for import libs named as Microsoft names them.
It will also generate import libs with a .lib extension.

Cheers,
Peter