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dll compile, can not resolve with -module libs


From: Guido Draheim
Subject: dll compile, can not resolve with -module libs
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:04:52 +0200

As everyone knows, compiling a win-dll requires all references
to be resolved at link-time, and therefore libtool needs to
know all lib-files by their name in the link-stage.

A project of mine contains a few module-dll that are installed
into $pgklibdir and "dlopen"-ed. Now there is a module2-dll that
needs a few functions from another module1-dll, no problem you
might think, just add it to the list of link-dependencies.
The answer is, there is no way to do it - libtool will check
each of the linked libraries in a file_magic-stage, and it will
strictly expand all -l$what into a search for a thing called
lib$what[.-]* - it does not even check for a "/" in the "-l"-arg,
nor is it ready to recognize a module-sharedobject anyway as
it will always add the "lib"-prefix - the "ls -ld"-call will 
even try  b*llsh*t like "ls -ld lib.libs/module[.-]*"

This -module related problem is a no-issue in ldso-based systems 
where we can just omit the dependency of module2.so to module1.so 
during link-time, the dlopen()-call would just return an errorcode 
if module1.so was not loaded before module2.so - it isn't in a
dll-compile as the dll-table of module2.dll must know about 
module1.dll, but the file_magic check can not see module1.dll.

How to go from here?

(currently using cross-compiler linux->mingw32msvc)

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