On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:40:43AM +0100, Denis Chancogne wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to make a patch to build php under Cygwin, but there is one > problem with libtool. > > When you pass to it the option -l<lib_name>, it search only libraries of > type lib<lib_name>* > to check that /lib/lib<lib_name>.dll.a exists (interface to dll). So it > doesn't want to link > with icu libraries because when you install icu libraries, in lib directory > you have only > dll file (cyg<lib_name>.dll) but no dll interface static library > (lib<lib_name>.dll.a). > > Today it is possible to link directly with dll file without static interface > library to this dll, > so I did a patch to search libraries of type "cyg<lib_name>.dll", > "lib<lib_name>.dll" or > "<lib_name>.dll" when you use option -l<lib_name> under cygwin. (I have > added search > of "<lib_name>.dll" because of ldflags returned by icu-config : > > $ ./icu-config --ldflags > -lpthread -lm -L/home/C82DHAN/tools/icu/3.8-org/lib -lcygicuin38 > -lcygicuuc38 -lcygicudt38 -lpthread -lm > > ) > > I have already post this patch on [EMAIL PROTECTED] but there is no > response ??? > ( http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2007-12/msg00006.html ) > > Regards > Denis > PS: maybe icu installation should produce this kind of library and there > would be no problem > with libtool but not all the tools use libtool to produce their dll so when > you use this previous tools > there is only cyg<lib_name>.dll or lib<lib_name>.dll library file. (and no > lib<lib_name>.dll.a)
This patch breaks it for users of $libname_spec, a variable you have simply removed without notice. It may also break with older tools that do not support linking directly with dlls (but I don't know when that support was added and therefore I don't know if it is a relevant argument). It is not terribly hard to create those import libraries semi- manually. dlltool can do most of the work. Is that not an option for you? Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
