Re: [gtkdatabox] How to make a windows dll with mingw

[Brian Phelps <lm317t gmail com>]

I think there is a way to convert a *.a library to a dll.  I do not know how and have had minimal experience with DLL's.  You may wanna try the Mingw list.  I wish I had more ways I could help here but I just don't have much experience with DLL's.

I believe this library will require you to have the exact version of GTK that the gtkdatabox was compiled under installed on the machine also.  I tried a static GTK databox build once on both Linux and windows and I got no where with it.  

Good luck and if you have success then send us your patch we will try to include it in the future releases.

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Hugh Sparks <hugh csparks com> wrote:

I was able to build gtkdatabox with ./configure, make, etc., using mingw, but the output consists of only an include and lib directory.
This is what I get after "make install":

        include/...
        lib/
                pkgconfig/
                        gtkdatabox.pc
                gtkdatabox.la
                gtkdatabox.a

I would like to create a windows dll and I was expecting that
"make install" would create something like this:

        bin/
                gtkdatabox.dll
        include/...
        lib/
                pkgconfig/
                        gtkdatabox.pc
                gtkdatabox.dll.a

Is there an option to ./configure that would have make produce the dll?
I tried --enable-shared without success. I want to produce a gtkdatabox.zip archive that will unpack like the pre-built binary versions of gtkdatabox. I though perhaps there was some way ./configure could do that... If not, how should the dll be produced?

Thanks,

-H Sparks

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