Re: "Re: libbfd, libtool & Win32" and "Re: Building a MinGW GLib etc..."

[Guido Draheim]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
> > There is one major decision that needs to be made: Keep or remove support for
> > old versions of the mingw toolchain.
> > All the -mdll stuff is deprecated in favour of gcc -shared now.
>
>
> Since MinGW itself is a work in progress, I recommend that support for
> pre "gcc -shared" toolchains be removed.  Support should be as similar
> to Cygwin as possible, while ensuring that there are no DLL conflicts.
>
> My experience is that current CVS libtool does not work acceptably
> under MinGW so I think that the current stuff should be discarded in
> favor of working code.

ho ho ho, I was even thinking of patching libtool-1-4 branch.
And I use crossmingw in a production environment at my
employer, so changes in the build environment usually take
effect within the next two year after releasing new generations,
- however, I can sell an update-version much better than great
new stuff, taking effect within months.

> I can test the updated libtool with ImageMagick, which should exercise
> it pretty well under MinGW.

I have some libs too that I crosscompile regularly. Whatever we come
up with patches, I am very sure it can be tested thoroughly - I did
just have a look on to mingw-users ML, and I was amazed about the
traffic over there... wasn't that different a year back? Is that
another XP effect taking place?