Re: Disable --whole-archive when using convenience archives

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Alon Bar-Lev wrote on Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:07:46AM CET:
> > For some strange reason this workaround does not work in Windows when
> > creating a DLL.
> >
> > I get:
> > ---
> > /bin/sh ../../../../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link
> > x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc  -g -O2 -pedantic -Wall -Wextra  -module
> > -shared -avoid-version -no-undefined -export-symbols x.exports -o x.la
> > -rpath /tmp/xxx/lib x.lo ../../../../src/lib/core/libcore.la -lws2_32
> >
> > *** Warning: This system can not link to static lib archive
> > ../../../../src/lib/core/libcore.la.
> > *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in
> > when
> > *** you link to this library.  But I can only do this if you have a
> > *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have.
> > *** But as you try to build a module library, libtool will still create
> > *** a static module, that should work as long as the dlopening application
> > *** is linked with the -dlopen flag to resolve symbols at runtime.
> > ---
> >
> > If I modify libtool:
> > if test "$deplibs_check_method" != pass_all; then
> > To:
> > if false && test "$deplibs_check_method" != pass_all; then
> >
> > It works...

> Any idea how to workaround/solve this on windows host?

I'm not sure I understand correctly.  libtool prints a warning, but
should not fail.  Is the result usable?  If not, then the build should
end with an error in a later link: can you post it and its output?

Thanks,
Ralf