Re[3]: libtool shouldn't switch to creating static library if it can't create the shared one under Windows

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> Yes, sorry, I keep forgetting about auto-import feature, I guess I'm just
> too accustomed to the "traditional" Windows way and have trouble accepting
> auto-import magic. It's true that projects using auto-import could live
> with falling back to a static library. But consider that auto-importing is
> relatively new so there should be proportionally few projects using it,
> hence IMHO the risk of breakage remains reasonably small.

Most projects using libtool come from Unix/Linux where "auto-import" 
is the default so it can be seen that most projects already depend on 
it (and the main issue for them is to use --no-undefined so libtool 
will build a DLL).  Primarily programs which originated under Windows 
(or really care about Windows) use the dllexport/dllimport facilities.

Bob
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