Re: [Mingw-users] Whats the latest on libtool and the stub dll libraries?

[Elizabeth Barham]

Earnie Boyd <address@hidden> writes:

> Ok, submit a proper patch against the CVS source to address@hidden for
> proper credit for the fix.

Okay, I am satisfied with this and submit this patch for peer review.

SYNOPSIS:

Adds a linker flag check for "-shared" before those that are all ready
defined when building a win32 dll (using the AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL in
configure.ac) for a mingw* host.

Index: libtool.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/libtool.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.264
diff -r1.264 libtool.m4
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<     # require "-mdll"
---
>     # require "-mdll" (and still newer ones would rather have "-shared")
512c512
<     CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mdll"
---
>     CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -shared"
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<       [AC_TRY_LINK([], [], 
[lt_cv_cc_dll_switch=-mdll],[lt_cv_cc_dll_switch=-dll])])
---
>       [AC_TRY_LINK([], [], [lt_cv_cc_dll_switch=-shared],
>         [
>          CFLAGS="$SAVE_CFLAGS -mdll"
>        AC_TRY_LINK([], [], 
> [lt_cv_cc_dll_switch=-mdll],[lt_cv_cc_dll_switch=-dll])])])

Regards,

Elizabeth