Hi, Kornél Pál <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>From: Raja R Harinath >>>>I don't know much about the Windows world, but IIRC, you have to say >>>>you're targetting 'mingw' rather than 'cygwin'. You'll then get >>>>libmono-1.dll and libMonoPosixHelper.dll -- I don't think you can escape >>>>the lib prefix either, but it's at least bearable. >>> >>> I have never tried to compile Mono under mingw and and I don't know >>> whether >>> it can be compiled under mingw. But I don't want to compile it under >>> mingw >>> so I don't care.:) >> >>I wasn't suggesting that you build _under_ mingw. I was suggesting that >>you build _for_ mingw, since that's (almost) what we intend: we don't want >>to depend on cygwin libraries. > > I don't know what exactly you want to suggest. Ah, you don't grok autoconf then :-) > I build Mono on Windows under Cygwin (I think just as anyone > else). The build system uses "-nno-cygwin" so the resulting binaries > are not dependent on Cygwin. > > But the problem is that even those libraries built with "-nno-cygwin" will > the the 'cyg' prefix and I don't like it because it suggests that they > require Cygwing but in fact not. And thats why I proposed the patch. That's because of Mono's misuse of autoconf. IIRC, The GNU build system already has a way to express that we don't want to link against cywin.dll: that's to cross-compile to mingw. I can't fix it since I don't have the knowledge to fix it, nor the patience to gain the knowledge on Windows. - Hari _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list