Re: make/framework.make patch

[Adam Fedor]

mirko.viviani@rccr.cremona.it wrote:

> You wrote:
>
>
> > (1) for objc frameworks, do .a files need to be
> > created/installed as well as .dlls? (as for the main gnustep
> > libraries which have both).
>
> I think that there is no need for them.


You do need both. The .a files are for linking, the .dll's are for running.


> > (2) should we be striving to keep the dlls inside the
> > framework folders, or is this a lost cause on Windows, when
> > the dlls have to be in the PATH?
>
> As on non-win system you can put the dlls in */Library/Libraries
> and these paths should go in PATH.


.a files should go in ../Libraries/{target_dir}
.dll files should fo in ../Tools/{target_dir}

since PATH already includes the Tools/... dirs.

Although the .a files could just stay in the framework dir, as long as 
link commands are set up correctly. I have to look at that more closely 
since I don't know how frameworks work in GNUstep.




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