cygwin vs. windows paths

2003-09-25 Thread Bernhard . Rumpler
Hallo, this has been a topic on this list some time ago, but I could not find any satisfactory answers: Libtool, when used from cygwin, creates paths in cygwin format, e.g., /cygdrive/c/libs/libfoo.la. The MinGW tools require paths to be in windows/dos format, e.g., c:/libs/libfoo.la. Is it s

only static libraries created

2003-09-25 Thread Bernhard . Rumpler
Hi, I want to compile gtkhtml2 (libgtkhtml) for windows, I use MinGW (gcc-3.2.3) and cygwin. My problem is that only static libraries are created, no .dlls. What could be the reason for this? The problem is that the library consists of some sub-packages (sub-directories) that are linked together

Re: only static libraries created

2003-09-25 Thread Bernhard Rumpler
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Guido Draheim wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > *** Warning: This system can not link to static lib archive > > c:/libpath/lib/libfoo.la. >^ > > How did you do that? -- guido Since libtool on cygwin usually generates unix/cygwin-style paths (sta

Re: only static libraries created

2003-09-25 Thread Bernhard Rumpler
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Guido Draheim wrote: > If all > dependencies are resolved then a dll should be there > as $subdir/.libs/*.dll - check the content of the .la > files in $subdir/*.la whether it has been configured > correctly to create dynalibs (it's a text file). Then > do the next step. hmm,

Re: only static libraries created

2003-09-25 Thread Bernhard Rumpler
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want to compile gtkhtml2 (libgtkhtml) for windows, > > I use MinGW (gcc-3.2.3) and cygwin. > > > > My problem is that only static libraries are created, > > no .dlls. What could be the reason for this?

Re: only static libraries created

2003-09-25 Thread Bernhard Rumpler
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > The easiest way to deal with MinGW is to use the MSYS shell which > provides a limited Cygwin-like shell capable of supporting configure, > make, and libtool, while automatically transforming Unix paths into > the Windows paths that the tools require.

Re: only static libraries created

2003-09-29 Thread Bernhard Rumpler
Tor Lillqvist wrote: I have found that to ensure a mixture of Cygwin-based tools (for instance shell scripts that run under a Cygwin shell, or Cygwin Perl scripts) and native (mingw) tools interoperate reliably one needs to make sure that the same paths are valid (and point to the same files) in bo

Re: only static libraries created

2003-09-30 Thread Bernhard . Rumpler
On 26.09.2003 02:44:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Bernhard Rumpler wrote: >>>When I try to link static libraries, then a warning "Linking the shared >>>library libgtkhtml-2.la against a loadable module - libhtmllayou

modifying .la files

2003-10-01 Thread Bernhard . Rumpler
Hi, sorry for asking this again, but I have not received any answers so far and I'm still struggling with building dlls on windows. Could there occur any problems, when the .la files are modified in the following way: 1.) set "library_names" to the same file name as "old_library" 2.) set "instal