On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:33:19AM +0300, Jani tiainen wrote: >Jay West wrote: > >>Larry wrote... >> >>>Did you see this? >>> >>><http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-10/msg00451.html> >> >>No I didn't, but thanks! Actually, no, it doesn't answer my question. It >>does ask the precursor to my question, which is how to create a dlopenable >>module. I'm well aware of how to do that on unix, using exactly the >>commands >>he listed (main executable with --export-dynamic, module with -fpic and >>ld -shareable -dynamic). He is generally asking how to do that with cygwin, >>but there's no discussion of exactly what with, and if, backlinking is >>supported on a cygwin-ized windows machine. >> >>I will gladly do the legwork of figuring out the specifics of how to do it >>on cygwin, but I was hoping someone could at least point me down the right >>path. Let me be more specific, I see two alternatives: > >You don't have to, I did it already.. =) > >>So I guess in the final analysis there are two specific questions: Does >>cygwin-based windows take care of backlinking, and if so with what >>tool/method, and is it's method compatable with libtool in a transparent >>way on Unix vs. Cygwin/Windows? > >Shortly no. Longer answer is yes it does. > >I rember writing a few articles about this... > >Basicaly thing goes so that you compile (but not link) needed files, >generate needed .lib:s and then link whole thing. > >Note that you can export symbols from .exe in same way. > >Here is few pointers: > ><http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2002-10/msg00145.html> > ><http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg01071.html> > > >And bad news is: libtool can't handle this (at least not to my knowledge). > >Because this is strictly windoze specific, this is also a offtopic of >this mailinglist..
I wouldn't call it off-topic if it is using the binutils and gcc provided by cygwin. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
