Re: mingw-w64's libuuid.a : *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -luuid.

[Vincent Torri]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Peter Rosin <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2012-07-21 13:16, Vincent Torri wrote:
>> another solution is to just kill the stupid .la file. There is
>
> I don't think the .la file is stupid as it lists other important
> dependencies.

so what ? There is a HUGE problem, here. Currently, if a lib uses
symbols in libuuid, it just can't be used to create progs/shared lib
because the .la file lists it while it should (must) not. Static libs
must not appear in the dependency_libs field.

>> absolutely NO reason to add to the linker static libraries that are
>> ONLY used in my Evil library and that are not used elsewhere.
>>
>> I think that it is the best solution
>
> That disables (easy) static linking. I, as a library author, do not
> like to make that policy decision for the application author.

on Windows  DLL are good. I already pass --disable-static to all my
Windows builds.

Vincent Torri