Re: Extend libtool dll namespaces for mingw-w64

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> > libtool should also check if GCC "-m32" or "-m64" is used, and select
> > the proper namespace accordingly (mingw-w64 GCC can do multilib).
> >
> > Comments?
>
> This is highly none standard naming convention...
> Handling w32 and w64 should be the same as handling multilib at Linux
> for example.

Windows uses a dramatically different algorithm than Linux to find DLL 
libraries at run-time.  Windows also uses a split model where the link 
library is separate from the object DLL library.  I think that using a 
special naming convention may be warranted for Windows.

Bob
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