Re: MinGW libtool DLL failure

[Boehne, Robert]

> 
> With the link line fully qualified with all of the system libraries and
> objects you could just use ld directly.  It would be better, IMO, though
> to remove the system libraries from the link command and allow g[cc|++]
> to add the appropriate system libraries so that if some new system
> library is added, the package won't need to worry about it.
> 
> Earnie.
> 

AAACK!  Oh no, that is definitely the compiler's job, I'm not going
to jump on a bandwagon of tracking every additional link flag tacked
on by every C++ compiler on the planet, Libtool is hard enough
to maintain as it is.  Clearly the compiler should be able to link
a shared library, if not, it is broken.
  The only thing that troubles me about the link line Bob posted is
that a .dll is specified in the link, not the corresponding .lib.
I'm not a Windows guru, but I thought that you never link to a
dll directly, but to the .lib that is created when the dll is.

HTH,

Robert


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