Re: Extend libtool dll namespaces for mingw-w64

[JonY]

On 1/30/2010 06:55, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> That would be fine with me.  But I suggest that any policy decision for
> such a naming change should be done by those projects (MinGW-W64, MinGW,
> or both), documented there, a flag day announced, and then libtool
> should follow suit, not the other way round.

Hi,

I am representing MinGW-W64 and have discussed this with Kai and
Nightstrike on IRC. Since all these DLLs all run on Windows, we can't
expect users to constantly fiddle with PATH to load the correct DLL, or
copy DLLs to every directory where their executables live.

One of the objectives in my proposal was to avoid any changes to how
libtool behaves with mingw.org. So any changes should be confined to
the mingw-w64 side of it.

The mingw-w64 project uses the "w64" vendor key, while the normal
distribution can use any vendor key. So it is a matter of checking for
"w64" in the vendor key, in addition to any -m32 or -m64 arguments.