Re: [Help-glpk] [Fwd: Build glpk as a shared library on Cygwin, MinGW and similar systems]

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

Hello Andrew,

I tested with Cygwin64 on Windows Vista. Without the patch no DLL is 
built, the GLPK library is statically compiled into glpsol.exe. With the 
patch the GLPK library is built as DLL and dynamically linked into 
glpsol.exe.

So I suggest to integrate the patch with the next release.

Best regards

Heinrich Schuchardt

On 03.11.2014 21:29, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2014-11-03 21:24 GMT+01:00 Heinrich Schuchardt <address@hidden>:
> > Hello Marco,
> >
> > why do you want to build with no-undefined?
> >
> > Why do you think this makes sense for Cygwin and MinGW only and not
> > elsewhere?
> Because on Cygwin/MinGW for shared libraries, all symbols must be
> resolved at build time.
> Undefined symbols are not allowed.
> Therefore at soe point the libtool folks decided that by default you
> cannot build a shared library without specifying that you promise that
> every symbol will be available and pass the -no-undefined flag (to
> libtool).
> Note that before you did not have to specify the flag...
> On other systems, the flag is usually useless and can even be harmful
> combined with other flags dealing with undefined symbols though it
> rarely happens.
>
> Best,
> --
> Jean-Pierre Flori