Re: [PATCH] Adjust naming of MSVC import libraries.

[Peter Rosin]

Den 2010-09-04 16:21 skrev Charles Wilson:
> On 9/4/2010 4:52 AM, Peter Rosin wrote:
>>
>> If you are using -lfoo, then you *must* use 'compile' as well as cl
>> does not know about the -l option. So, I was thinking that 'compile'
>> instead of just transforming -lfoo into foo.lib would walk the library
>> search path (in the same order as cl would) and replace -lfoo with
>> either of foo.lib or foo.dll.lib depending on which was found first
>> and possibly also modified by any -static or -shared flags (also not
>> supported by cl, so -static and -shared would have to be completely
>> handled by 'compile' and would only affect -lfoo handling, at least
>> in my current thinking).
> 
> Remember that -static and -shared, the gcc options, are not antonyms:
> 
> `-static'
>      On systems that support dynamic linking, this prevents linking
>      with the shared libraries.
> 
> `-shared'
>      Produce a shared object which can then be linked with other
>      objects to form an executable.

Oh *blush*, I slipped there. I blame libtool and that it handles all
that gunk so that I don't have to :-)

> I have no objections anymore, but I can't approve it.

Good. And thanks for the useful discussion.

Cheers,
Peter