windows static archive, missing symbols

[Bob Rossi]

Hi,

I've got a quick question hopefully. I'm building pcre on windows. I've
been able to build it into a dll and link against it with a small
program. However, when I build a static library, and link it with a
small program, I get the missing symbols error. 

I know the symbols are in the library because nm tells me so,
  $ nm -g /home/bobbybrasko/download/pcre/pcre/install/lib/libpcre.a|grep 
compile                         
  libpcre_la-pcre_compile.o:                                                    
                          
  00005550 T _pcre_compile                                                      
                          

Here is the link line of the small program,
  $ gcc-4.1 -g -Wall -o test test.c 
-L/home/bobbybrasko/download/pcre/pcre/install/lib \
    -lpcreposix -lpcre 
  -I/home/bobbybrasko/download/pcre/pcre/install/include                        
                          
  C:/WINDOWS/TEMP/ccgGAsIC.o(.text+0x2e): In function `main':                   
                          
  C:/msys/1.0/home/bobbybrasko/download/pcre/pcre/build/tmp/test.c:13: 
    undefined reference to `_imp__pcre_compile'                                 
                                                               collect2: ld 
returned 1 exit status                                                          
           address@hidden ~/download/pcre/pcre/build/tmp                        
                                 
Here is the test program,
$ cat test.c                                                                    
                        
#include <stdio.h>                                                              
                        
#include <string.h>                                                             
                        
#include <pcre.h>                                                               
                        
                                                                                
                        
pcre *re;                                                                       
                        
char *pattern;                                                                  
                        
const char *error;                                                              
                        
int erroffset;                                                                  
                        
                                                                                
                        
int                                                                             
                        
main (void)                                                                     
                        
{                                                                               
                        
  re = pcre_compile(                                                            
                        
    pattern,              /* the pattern */                                     
                        
    0,                    /* default options */                                 
                        
    &error,               /* for error message */                               
                        
    &erroffset,           /* for error offset */                                
                        
    NULL);                                                                      
                        
  return 0;                                                                     
                        
}                                                                               
                        

Here is the link line of the library pcre,
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2   -o libpcre.la -rpath 
/home/bobbybrasko/download/pcre/pcre/static/../install/lib  
libpcre_la-pcre_chartables.lo libpcre_la-pcre_compile.lo 
libpcre_la-pcre_config.lo libpcre_la-pcre_dfa_exec.lo libpcre_la-pcre_exec.lo 
libpcre_la-pcre_fullinfo.lo libpcre_la-pcre_get.lo libpcre_la-pcre_globals.lo 
libpcre_la-pcre_info.lo libpcre_la-pcre_maketables.lo 
libpcre_la-pcre_newline.lo libpcre_la-pcre_ord2utf8.lo 
libpcre_la-pcre_refcount.lo libpcre_la-pcre_study.lo libpcre_la-pcre_tables.lo 
libpcre_la-pcre_try_flipped.lo libpcre_la-pcre_ucp_searchfuncs.lo 
libpcre_la-pcre_valid_utf8.lo libpcre_la-pcre_version.lo 
libpcre_la-pcre_xclass.lo  
libtool: link: warning: undefined symbols not allowed in i686-pc-mingw32 shared 
libraries
rm -fr  .libs/libpcre.a .libs/libpcre.la .libs/libpcre.lai
ar cru .libs/libpcre.a  libpcre_la-pcre_chartables.o libpcre_la-pcre_compile.o 
libpcre_la-pcre_config.o libpcre_la-pcre_dfa_exec.o libpcre_la-pcre_exec.o 
libpcre_la-pcre_fullinfo.o libpcre_la-pcre_get.o libpcre_la-pcre_globals.o 
libpcre_la-pcre_info.o libpcre_la-pcre_maketables.o libpcre_la-pcre_newline.o 
libpcre_la-pcre_ord2utf8.o libpcre_la-pcre_refcount.o libpcre_la-pcre_study.o 
libpcre_la-pcre_tables.o libpcre_la-pcre_try_flipped.o 
libpcre_la-pcre_ucp_searchfuncs.o libpcre_la-pcre_valid_utf8.o 
libpcre_la-pcre_version.o libpcre_la-pcre_xclass.o
ranlib .libs/libpcre.a
creating libpcre.la

Does anyone understand why I'd be getting these errors? Are .def files
important for static windows libraries or only for dll's? Any advice?

Thanks,
Bob Rossi