On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:33:30PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Joost" == Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Joost> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> Thanks. So the following (plus removal of cygwin.m4) would be just > >> as good, right? > > Joost> Yes, but add a new file called windows.m4. My font patch for > Joost> example needs to link against gdi32 on Windows. > > I'd rather add to the main configure.ac something like > AC_CHECK_LIB(gdi32, AddFontResource) > to the main configure.ac. > > Would that be OK, or is the windows dll structure too complicated to > make this work?
I didn't succeed in using AC_CHECK_LIB with a win32 library, so in the autoview patch I directly used AC_SUBST to add -lshlwapi. I think that Joost modeled his patch on that above, so the answer is that AC_CHECK_LIB is a nightmare to be avoided. On the other hand, those win32 libraries are present in any cygwin or mingw distribution, so there is no point for AC_CHECK_LIB, IMHO. -- Enrico
