Re: MSW DLLs support in libtool

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Peter Rosin wrote:
> As for your point about non-trivial programs not working without
> special treatment, there are a large body of packages that build just
> fine using Cygwin on-top of Windows, without much in the way of special
> treatment. Cygwin also suffers the from the cursed -no-undefined mess,

Many packages written in ANSI C and a smattering of POSIX are also 
able to build under MinGW using the MSYS shell successfully.  At least 
that has been my experience.

Some Unix application developers do care about Windows and at least do 
some testing with Cygwin and MinGW.

> I agree wholeheartedly with the notion that --disable-static should end
> up in a failure and not somehow degrade to a static build anyway. I

Is this not the case?  I have seen builds on Windows fail due to using 
--disable-static.

Libtool is not well optimized for Windows or even GNU Linux.  Instead 
it provides a working generalized solution which is usually "good 
enough".

Bob
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