Thank you for suggesting that. I finally got it to compile after realizing that I was missing the 'dlltool' utility found under the 'binutils' package of mingw.
This was key to having libtool create the DLLs. Otherwise it simply was creating archived library packages. Karl > -----Original Message----- > From: control H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 0924 AM > To: Karl Reis > Cc: gtk-app-devel > Subject: Re: FW: compiling gtk-engines under mingw > > > Has anyone been able to successfully compile and create libmist.dll, > > libclearlooks.dll under windows? > > Yes I have done that a year ago or so, I compiled and used clearlooks > under Windows using mingw. > > > Libtool generates warnings saying that the shared libraries for gtk, > pango, > > etc.. are not found. Indeed, there are only static libraries. > > True, libtool fails. Since usually I compile "by hand" I never use > libtool, and therefore I didn't bother finding out why libtool failed. > Instead, I manually adjusted the failed compile/link command. As far > as I remember I just did something like gcc <all object files> -o > libclearlooks.dll or something like that. If you really want to know > what exact command I used I can compile (find out) it again. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list