Re: Building DLL

[Maarten Boekhold <boekhold at emirates dot net dot ae>]

Hi all,

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Maarten wrote:
> > Now that GTK2 is in the package tree, I thought I'd give building XFCE a
> > try. This package depends on 'Disk based hashes' (dbh), which needs to
> > be built as a shared library. Dbh uses libtool in its build process.

> You don't need .def files on Cygwin.  Just add -no-undefined to
> libxyz_LDFLAGS.

Of course Gerrit is right. Adding this works. *But only if I use a copy 
of /usr/autotool/devel/bin/libtool*. I.e. I always have to do:

autoreconf
./configure ....
cp /usr/autotool/devel/bin/libtool .
make && make install

However, the reported version number of this libtool is the same as the 
one created through configure (autoreconf?) (1.5.6). Is the version 
distributed with cygwin a patched version? If so, is there an official 
release of the autotools that include those patches? If so I'd like to 
try to convince the XFCE developers to upgrade...

Finally, (I know, not really the correct list for this): I'm only 
vaguely familiar with the whole autotools toolchain, and I was wondering 
if somebody could show me some boiler plate configure.ac/Makefile.am 
content so that I can forward the XFCE developers a patch to 
conditionally include '-no-undefined' to the libtool invocation in the 
XFCE build process...

Maarten

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