Hi, This is just a request to find out if anyone out there has tried using libtool to build Fortran DLLs under mingw32?
We had some Fortran code built as a shared library that could be loaded into Matlab quite happily on Linux systems and also used as a conventional library linked against by several programs. We're now looking to see if we could make that library available on mingw32 We are using automake 1.10.1, autoconf 2.63 and libtool 2.2.6 After a bit of digging around I thought that this would be possible by adding win32-dll to LT_INIT and adding -no-undefined to libmattest_la_LDFLAGS in the relevant Makefile.am as mentioned in the info. As it is Fortran we can't use the __declspec(dllexport) and __declspec (dllimport) as mentioned in the docs, but from my limited understanding, if this is never used, libtool exports all symbols? This appeared to produce a DLL. The problem was when a Fortran program in the library package tries to link against the created DLL (it was actually a test case wrapper) It fails with a number of multiple definition errors: __gfortran_set_options __gfortran_transfer_character __gfortran_st_write_done __gfortran_st_write It appears that the DLL creation has pulled in symbols from the libgfortran compiler runtime? Am I correct in assuming that this is due to the gfortran runtime not being available in DLL form? Provided it is stand alone, this DLL does appear to work in Matlab, but we cannot link Fortran programs with it. If we have a .so for Matlab that depends on other libraries, we don't appear to be able to create those libraries as DLLs (as we would create .so's on a UNIX system) due to these duplicate symbols that appear in each DLL. This does not appear to matter with PE however (PE is always PIC?) It is very likely that I've misunderstood the whole DLL approach here - would it make more sense to create static libraries separately for program linking and manually create a DLL for Matlab loading? If anyone has any suggestions or pointers, I'd greatly appreciate hearing them. Steve -- ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
