--- Keith MARSHALL <keith.marshall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > BRM wrote: > > 2) For those of you that are using the MSYS > > environment - is there any other way to create a > > static library using the Autotools under MSYS? > Perhaps `mingw-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', > (preferred), or > `mingw-msys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' would be better > fora for > this discussion; (both are subscriber only lists). Thanks. I'll take that part of the discussion there. > When using MinGW as the compiler suite, under MSYS, > you simply > create libraries as libSTUFF.a, then use the > -Llibpath and -lSTUFF > switches in the gcc command, just as you would on > *nix. For a small > example of how I've done this, for a MinGW support > library, see >http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-execwrap-1.0.0.tar.gz?download > If you *must* use MSVC, then you must follow M$ > convention for all > your Makefile commands, and would use the M$ `lib' > command, to > create the libraries. However, this scenario is > probably less > common in an MSYS build environment, where MinGW -- > a Win32 port > of GCC -- would be the preferred compiler suite. Thanks. As I am looking at possible distribution of the lib files and any DLL's that I build for use in other projects, I at least need the option available, though it would be good to have it the default under Windows. Thanks, Ben TCP/IP Evil-bit RFC ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
