Re: support of the cegcc compiler

[Vincent Torri]

Hey,

> In order to reasonably support this target, we need a volunteer who will 
> faithfully test libtool on that target and work to resolve issues.  Are you 
> able to find a volunteer to support the cegcc compiler?

I am volunteer :-)

> It seems that the cegcc compiler must work almost the same as the MinGW 
> compiler.  I think that the main issue will be that libtool has a very 
> sophisticated test suite which may currently depend on some features which 
> are not in Windows CE.  The test suite would need to be adapted to work 
> reasonably well for this target.  Even now, there are still some test 
> failures with the MinGW compiler.

Here are some patch for supporting the cegcc. I know that i should send 
them to address@hidden I put them here in case someone see 
something wrong in them, and also because i would like to ask some 
questions before:

1) how can I check libtool when doing cross compiling ? make check will 
check libtool on my platform (say linux), right ? So i don't know what to 
do to check libtool with cegcc

2) With those patches, libtool can now create dll's with cegcc. But I have 
that message when it tries to create the dll of my lib:

*** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -lws2.

etc... saying it can not create the shared lib of my lib because the 
shared version of libws2 does not exist. Usually, there are 2 things to 
do:

 a) provide the dll associated to that static lib
 b) pass -no-undefined (specific to Windows platform, not necessary on 
linux) to libtool (add it in *_la_LDFLAGS in Makefile.am's, for example).

Of course, i added -no-undefined but there is no dll for libws2.

The only exception i found was with mingw and those static libraries. From 
libtool version 1.5.24, it can create the dll of my lib, even if the dll 
of those libraries (lwsock2, libiberty, etc...) do not exist. I recall 
that with previous version (1.5.22 or maybe the one below), it can not.

Do you have some suggestions to fix this ?

thank you

Vincent Torri

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