Re: Building glib on MinGW

[Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek chauhan gmail com>]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 12:12 AM, Anton Shepelev <anton txt gmail com> wrote:
> I don't know what lib.exe is, but it may also  be  a
> Microsoft tool:
>
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0xb6w1f8.aspx
>
> Can I build Glib in MinGW without these tools?

lib.exe is probably used for creating MSVC-compatible import
libraries. You can't really use dlltool for that because of a binutils
bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12633

You might be able to replace dumpbin with objdump. Try it out and see
if it can be done?

Cheers,
Nirbheek