Re: AW: libtool + MinGW

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Brendon Costa wrote on Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:46:29AM CEST:
> Duft Markus wrote:
> > 
> > Do you want to get it to work with the MinGW GCC, or with the MSVC
> > toolchain (i.e. cl.exe, link.exe etc...) ? This makes a big
> > difference, since libltdl is really useless with the MS toolchain.
> > 
> > I think we allready talked about wgcc, did we? ;o)

> My plan is to eventually to get it to work with both. I know it should
> currently work on MinGW, so i am starting there. I now have that going
> correctly.
> 
> The next step is to look at the commands emitted by libtool while
> compiling with MinGW, and using wrappers like wgcc or my own wrapper
> scripts, to make them look enough like gcc/g++ that libtool can use the
> wrappers to actually compile/link with MSVC using the same commands it
> would usually use to compile/link with MinGW/gcc.

I think you won't get auto-import working with MSVC; AFAIK it has no
such feature.  Dunno about --enable-auto-image-base.

> I have also been looking at the idea of a libtool native port for MSVC,
> but that is not an option for the near term and may not be as desirable
> anyway in my situation.

That is more or less what Peter was aiming at.

Cheers,
Ralf