Hi Harald, * Harald Dunkel wrote on Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:05:47AM CET: > > There might be yet another problem with supporting msvc: Bill's > libraries are not built by 'ar cru', either. AFAIK they have > to be built using link.exe, e.g. > > link.exe /lib /OUT:libmylib.lib foo.obj bar.obj > > Please note the missing space between '/OUT:' and the library > name.
Yes. > The command line to build *.dll might be different. Yes. You may search the archives of the libtool-patches mailing list for the dozens of mails Peter Ekberg has written to support all of this nicely, including static and shared libraries, the libtool part of "-c -o" support, C++ source file names, flags for link.exe, detection of link.exe, optional use of dumplib.exe instead of nm, almost everything except for the tidbits that need to be changed in Automake. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to final testing and applying all of his patches. I can't promise when I'll be able to do that, but I certainly would like to see it applied; all I definitely want to avoid is any regressions for other systems (non-MSVC w32, or non-w32). Nobody else has stepped in either to do it. Free time is limited. Cheers, Ralf
