On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:26 PM, JonY <jo...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi, > > Currently, on Win32 platforms, Cygwin uses the "cyg" prefix for dlls, > and MinGW based systems uses the "lib" prefix. > > This works fine, until mingw-w64 showed up with 64bit dlls. This > problem is especially apparent with trying to build mingw-w64 cross > compilers. > > For example, both mingw and mingw-w64 builds libstdc++-6.dll from GCC. > When installed, there might be up to 3 incompatible versions of > libstdc++-6.dll, from mingw.org, 32bit mingw-w64 and 64bit mingw-w64. > > I suggest the following naming scheme. > > mingw.org: lib<name>-<major>.dll (unchanged) > Cygwin: cyg<name>-<major>.dll (unchanged) > mingw-w64(64): lib64<name>-<major>.dll > mingw-w64(32): lib32<name>-<major>.dll > > libtool should also check if GCC "-m32" or "-m64" is used, and select > the proper namespace accordingly (mingw-w64 GCC can do multilib). > > Comments? >
This is highly none standard naming convention... Handling w32 and w64 should be the same as handling multilib at Linux for example. Alon. _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
