Re: [dev-serveez] Re: libtool 1.5 used in serveez package

[stefan]

On Mon, 26 May 2003, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> > > > This message indicates that libtool is not able/does not want to link 
> > > > the
> > > > static archive libiberty.a to the libserveez.dll.  This worked perfectly
> > > > with 1.4.2.  When looking at the magic_regex_expr ('file_magic ^x86
> > > > archive import|^x86 DLL') in libtool.m4 one can get the impression that
> > > > windows dlls are now allowed to be linked against other dlls only.  
> > > > Static
> > > > archives are not allowed anymore.  Has this some reason?
> > >
> > > It was a bug to allow Windows DLLs to link against static libraries
> > > other than those delivered with the compiler.  1.5 fixes this bug.
> >
> > The static archive we are talking about is 'libiberty.a' which comes with
> > the mingw32 compiler.  Or what do you mean by "static libraries delivered
> > with the compiler"?
>
> More specifically, this would mean the libraries which are
> automatically supplied by the compiler such as libstdc++.  The
> 'libiberty.a' library is just a porting tool and is not required in
> order to build C and C++ programs.

Would it possibly make sense to do an exception for 'libiberty.a' and
'libm.a'?  Just noticed that '-lm' also fails with dlls.

Cheers,
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