Re: Confusing libtool behaviour on cygwin

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Maarten Boekhold wrote:

> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> > My understanding is that for non-module DLLs, the .dll file is installed 
> > in the bin directory so it is likely to be in the user's path.  If the 
>
> Then how does libtool decide whether a DLL is a (non)-module? The --module 
> flag? (looking through the sources... yes, those libs that got installed in 
> the bin dir didn't have LDFLAGS --module...)

Yes.  When modules are built, additional options are available.  For 
my package, I specify the options:

  -no-undefined -module -avoid-version

when building loadable modules.  This avoids the lib/cyg prefix and 
unnecessary library versioning info.

Bob
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