Re: Why does libtool silently remove -l libs from the link line?

[Paul Berrevoets]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Jul 26, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Why is it a warning? This should be an error. If I tell it
> > "use -lgdi32" it should use it or error out.
>
> Nope.  -lgdi32 is being recorded as a required dependency, and it will
> be linked in when any executables or other libraries are linked with
> the library you're creating.

Sorry to come in late on this thread, but ... libgsi32.a is _not_ a static
library, but an impdef library, which is how you link to shared libraries
in win32. Is this possibly where the mistake is in libtool?
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Regards,
Paul