Re: DLL creation and static libs

2010-11-03 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/3/2010 12:23 PM, Matěj Týč wrote: > On 2 November 2010 13:26, Charles Wilson wrote: >> On 11/2/2010 2:14 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> ... >> the problem is there are TWO different libuuid's. There's the one that >> is part of the win32 api, and simply contains a number of static objects >>

Re: DLL creation and static libs

2010-11-03 Thread Matěj Týč
On 2 November 2010 13:26, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 11/2/2010 2:14 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> ... > > the problem is there are TWO different libuuid's.  There's the one that > is part of the win32 api, and simply contains a number of static objects > that represent UUIDs of elements of the Win

Re: DLL creation and static libs

2010-11-02 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/2/2010 2:14 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > OTOH, if the w32 maintainers agree, then we can also give in and allow > linking against static libraries plainly. I tried the trivial patch > (set deplibs_check_method to pass_all) a while ago but that caused a > number of test failures, so somebody

Re: DLL creation and static libs

2010-11-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Matěj, * Matěj Týč wrote on Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:44:25PM CEST: > I have came across a libtool issue that complicates my life quite much. > The essence of the problem is that libtool refuses to make a DLL if it > is supposed to link a static library into the DLL. I have learned that > this

DLL creation and static libs

2010-10-27 Thread Matěj Týč
Hello, I have came across a libtool issue that complicates my life quite much. The essence of the problem is that libtool refuses to make a DLL if it is supposed to link a static library into the DLL. I have learned that this is a good assumption since the majority static libs don't contain PIC cod