* Florian Schricker wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 12:52:11PM CET: > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 11:49 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > Please let us know where the MINGW32 problems are. If you did not use > > `-no-undefined' while linking, please do so. Maybe that solves your > > issues. > > I got quite far already - am working on this for some time now - and > "-no-undefined" got me the farthest but I still had unresolved symbols > among other errors which all seem to come from the fact that dynamic > linking on Win32 is ... dumb. :-/ Well, yeah. Its COFF (executable format) is an outdated technology if you ask me, "time sink" would also be appropriate, but your description is quite to the point, too. ;-) > I have yet to try "--enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc" together with > "-no-undefined" as I had gotten some linker message which suggested to > use it; however I am still puzzled why using DLLs is such a pita > compared to GNU/Linux & Darwin. :-( Comparing apples and oranges there. GNU/Linux is basically sane (when looking at shared libraries from an ELF point of view ;-) , Darwin has gotten a lot better but needs quite some intricacies in libtool for good support of their extended library formats, win32 is arguably just arcane (granted, there are bugs in GNU toolchain support for it, too), AIX has probably the most powerful set of semantics but its default format is not so eay, either. > If anyone's interested I'll report more on this - but I'm not sure if > any of you is interested in problems with Xerces-C DLLs?! :-) Well, yes, sure. That's why I asked. Post as much information as possible (without generating huge emails please; use bzip2 or gzip for large attachments) that may be valuable. Please remove the autoconf list from followups, though, it does not belong there. We can still ignore it if the issue turns out not to be interesting. :) Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
