Re: mingw and dlls

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> is it right that i expect libtool to produce .dlls for my library when
> targetting mingw ?  if so, what sort of information should i post to track
> down why i'm only getting a static archive ?
>
> ive tested libtool 1.5.22 and 1.5.23b ... during configure, the output says
> that static and shared libs are supported for the mingw32 target and it says
> that the detected library loading method is Win32 ...

Did you use

AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL

or

LT_INIT([win32-dll])

In configure.ac to indicate that the package is prepared to build 
win32 DLLs?

Also, are you passing '-no-undefined' to libtool via the per-library 
LDFLAGS?  This last step is vitally important.

Bob
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