Re: Building libltdl on MSVC w/o Cygwin or Mingw32

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Corbin,

* Corbin Simpson wrote on Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:03:01AM CEST:
> 
> Hi, I'm working on a cross-platform game, and for plugin loading, I was
> hoping to use libltdl, since Win32 DLL loading is a pain to work with.
> However, it only builds on Windows with mingw or the cygwin system, and
> this is sort of a deal-breaker, since one of the libraries we require is
> currently broken on all Windows compilers besides MSVC.
> 
> Is there some magic incantation that will make libltdl build with MSVC?
> Something I've overlooked?

You can look at two separate efforts to get Libtool working with MSVC,
one by Peter Rosin aka. Ekberg, and one by Markus Duft.   They are still
in need of integration into the tree, cleanup and all... :-/
You can find them in the list archives of the libtool-patches list.

Cheers,
Ralf