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Re: Using libltdl with the Microsoft compiler


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: Using libltdl with the Microsoft compiler
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:37:58 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

* Braden McDaniel wrote on Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:20:13PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> * Braden McDaniel wrote on Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:03:04AM CEST:
>>> In lt__glibc.h, there are symbols HAVE_ARGZ_H and HAVE_WORKING_ARGZ.
>>> Yet, argz.h appears to be included irrespective of them.  Is this
>>> intentional?  (It's a problem here because there is no argz.h.)
>>
>> Yes.  Libtool provides a replacement argz.h, see libltdl/argz_.h.
>
> I did. But argz_.h is not getting included by lt__glibc.h; argz.h is.  
> Does the configure build copy argz_.h to argz.h?

Yes.  The copying is done so that, if the system argz.h is good, we
don't accidentally include our own one.

>> How come you cannot use a shell environment like MinGW or SFU to build
>> Libtool?  You're going to have a pretty rough time emulating the rather
>> involved build logic for it.
>
> It didn't seem so bad for libtool 1.5; I guess it's gotten quite a bit  
> more complicated for 2.x?

Yes.

> Really, I'd be happy to jettison the Visual C++ project file build and  
> build the software with the autotools on Windows. But libtool 1.5  
> certainly didn't play nicely with the Microsoft compiler; and while I  
> haven't tried 2.2, the traffic I've seen on this list suggests that  
> patches to improve that situation haven't made it in yet.

Yes, unfortunately there is still a ways to go.

Cheers,
Ralf




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