Thank you for all the helpful pointers. I finally got it to compile. As it turns out I was missing the 'dlltool' utility on my system. This is typically found in the binutils package for mingw, and for whatever reason, it was not on my system. I downloaded and installed it again and everything works now.
Karl > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tor > Lillqvist > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 1251 PM > To: Karl Reis > Cc: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: FW: compiling gtk-engines under mingw > > > *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library > [blabla] > > > > (... ditto for all the other missing libraries... ) > > > So, in short, I'm not sure why libtool is not creating the appropriate > DLLs > > or what exactly it is looking for. > > I can't say either. I know I have occasionally been banging my head > against the keyboard in similar situations... > > Typically I have had to insert a "set -x" command in the libtool > script and tediously go through the produced trace and try to > understand what it tries to do, and why it goes wrong... > > Luckily I haven't had those problems in a while now... I had forgotten > how hard fighting with libtool can be... > > Some random stuff that comes to mind that might cause problems like these: > > - There might be something fundamental wrong in the way libtool checks > if a file is an archive. For instance, the "file" command it uses > might be somehow broken and not print out a string that libtool > recognizes as indicating an archive. Or actually I think that if > libtool properly configures itself in a MSYS/mingw environment it > should use "objdump" to recognize libraries... > > - The ltmain.sh included in the source tarball you are building from > is from an old version of libtool that didn't support building DLLs > properly. To get around this I guess you need to install a good > libtool version and run the libtoolize command. > > > The last comment about "dlopen" is also quite confusing to me. > > Yes. It might be just a misleading warning/information text that > nobody has noticed to change for Windows. Or it might be a sign that > the libtool version used indeed is broken on Windows. > > --tml _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
