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

[Tony Theodore]

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.
> 
> 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.

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).

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.

Cheers,

Tony


[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