Re: Fun with ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Windows import libraries

[Ari Jolma <ari jolma tkk fi>]

Torsten Schoenfeld kirjoitti:
> Ari Jolma wrote:
>
>   
> > My approach works but all this feels as a mixture between MS compilers
> > and cygwin, I'm not sure what should be fixed - at least I'd like to
> > change Glib et al Makefile.PL's so that I didn't need to hand-edit
> > Makefile.
> >     
>
> I don't have any experience with MinGW, so I can't help much.  But yes, the
> goal should be that building just works.  So if you can come up with a patch
> to EU::Depends or whatever else needs changing, we'd be happy to include it

EU::Depends::find_extra_libs assumes now that when OS is MSWin32, the 
(import) library extension is ".lib". When MinGW is used, the extension 
is usually .dll.a (MinGW could also happily use the actual .dll, but 
EU::LibList::Kid does not allow that currently). Thus a (partial) 
solution would be to change find_extra_libs to search for files with 
.dll.a extension too. I don't have a very elegant solution how to allow 
both extensions.

ActiveState seems to support MinGW and automatically detect MinGW (this 
is old news 
http://www.issociate.de/board/post/274396/ActivePerl_5.8.7.815_released.html). 
Somehow this detection should be propagated to EU::LibList::Kid to look 
for import libraries "lib<library>.dll.a" -- or the Makefile.PL's may 
also alter the liblist by adding ".dll.a" before calling set_libs().

Ari

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