linking with extern DLLs under Cygwin

2008-01-22 Thread Denis Chancogne
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, it search only libraries of type lib* to check that /lib/lib.dll.a exists (interface to dll). So it doesn't want to link with icu libraries because when you instal

Re: linking with extern DLLs under Cygwin

2008-01-23 Thread Denis Chancogne
> > Peter Rosin wrote: > > > 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? > > That or simply a symlink libfoo.dll.a -> ../bin/cygfoo-n.dll. > > In the official Cygwin distro all devel packages contai