When the AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL macro was originated, it was necessary to add dllexport decorations to library source code in order to build a DLL. When AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL was added to configure.in, it enabled a few Windows specific tests, but most importantly, it enabled building libraries as DLLs.
Due to binutils enhancements made in the past two years, both Cygwin and MinGW are able to build DLLs without dllexport decorations. In my opinion, this makes AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL obsolete. The few remaining functions from this macro can be moved elsewhere in libtool.m4 so that packages can automatically support building DLLs. Comments? Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
