Re: dll names on windows

[Bob Rossi]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:12:49PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:23:20PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > Bob Rossi wrote:
> > > I've recently converted pcre's (http://www.pcre.org/) build
> > > system to use the autotools.
> > > 
> > > The previous stable version of libtool, pcre-7.0, used to create dll's
> > > on mingw. It would create 
> > >   $ ls .libs/*.dll                                                        
> > >                                 
> > >     .libs/pcre.dll  .libs/pcreposix.dll                                   
> > >                                   
> > > 
> > > Now, the new autotools version creates,
> > >   $ ls ../../pcre-7.1-RC4/prefix-shared/bin                               
> > >                                 
> > >   libpcre-0.dll  libpcrecpp-0.dll  libpcreposix-0.dll  pcre-config
> 
> So, now pcre uses the names directly above, which is the default
> behavior. However, the pcre project would like to provide a backwards
> compatible dll the user can use if they enable the configure switch
> --enable-alt-win-dll (or something like that).
> 
> Is there any way that I can have libtool simply create a dll with the
> new 'pcre.dll' instead of 'libpcre-0.dll'? Otherwise, I'll have to code
> into the Makefile some commands to provide the user with what they want.

Above I meant to say 'with the name 'pcre.dll'.

Ping. Maybe this is a stupid question. I'm not really knowledgeable
enough to know if what I'm asking for doesn't even make sense. I'd like
to at least find out if it's a reasonable question that I'm asking. :)

Bob Rossi