Cannot build static libraries under mingw

[Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri gmail com>]

Hello,

I'm having trouble building static glibmm with mingw
cross-compiler (linux build, windows target).
No problems with shared DLLs so far.

The configure line is
./configure --disable-shared --enable-static --target=i386-mingw32msvc \
--host=i386-mingw32msvc --build=i686-linux --prefix=/opt/cross-tools

Make stops with:

.....
Making all in giomm_simple
make[3]: Entering directory `/0S/a11/0build/CROSS/mm-2.14-gcc43/glibmm-2.18.1/tests/giomm_simple'
/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CXX   --mode=link i386-mingw32msvc-g++ -mms-bitfields  -O2 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -mms-bitfields -mms-bitfields -Wall -Wno-long-long   -o test.exe main.o  ../../glib/glibmm/libglibmm-2.4.la ../../gio/giomm/libgiomm-2.4.la -L/opt/cross-tools/i386-mingw32msvc/lib -L/target/lib -lsigc-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl
i386-mingw32msvc-g++ -mms-bitfields -O2 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -mms-bitfields -mms-bitfields -Wall -Wno-long-long -o test.exe main.o  ../../glib/glibmm/.libs/libglibmm-2.4.a -L/opt/cross-tools/i386-mingw32msvc/lib -L/target/lib ../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a -lgio-2.0 /0S/0tmp/0build/CROSS/mm-2.14-gcc43/glibmm-2.18.1/glib/glibmm/.libs/libglibmm-2.4.a /opt/cross-tools/i386-mingw32msvc/lib/libsigc-2.0.a -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl
../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(file.o):file.cc:(.text+0x1fbd): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib10ObjectBaseD2Ev'
../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(file.o):file.cc:(.text+0x2009): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib10ObjectBaseD2Ev'
../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(file.o):file.cc:(.text+0x20bd): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib10ObjectBaseD2Ev'
../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(file.o):file.cc:(.text+0x2114): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib10ObjectBaseD2Ev'
../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(file.o):file.cc:(.text+0x21a1): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib10ObjectBaseC2Ev'
../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(file.o):file.cc:(.text+0x2206): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib10ObjectBaseD2Ev'
../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(file.o):file.cc:(.text+0x22d1): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib10ObjectBaseC2Ev'
../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(file.o):file.cc:(.text+0x233f): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib10ObjectBaseD2Ev'
../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(file.o):file.cc:(.text+0x2421): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib10ObjectBaseC2Ev'
../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(file.o):file.cc:(.text+0x2486): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib10ObjectBaseD2Ev'
../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(file.o):file.cc:(.text$_ZN4Glib19wrap_auto_interfaceIN3Gio4FileEEEPT_P8_GObjectb[Gio::File* Glib::wrap_auto_interface<Gio::File>(_GObject*, bool)]+0x50): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib10ObjectBase20_get_current_wrapperEP8_GObject'
../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(inputstream.o):inputstream.cc:(.text+0x4ab): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib6ObjectD2Ev'
../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(inputstream.o):inputstream.cc:(.text+0x530): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib6ObjectD2Ev'

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About 70 KB of similar output follows.
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../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(loadableicon.o):loadableicon.cc:(.text+0x5f1): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib10ObjectBaseC2Ev'
../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(loadableicon.o):loadableicon.cc:(.text+0x656): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib10ObjectBaseD2Ev'
../../gio/giomm/.libs/libgiomm-2.4.a(loadableicon.o):loadableicon.cc:(.text$_ZN4Glib19wrap_auto_interfaceIN3Gio12LoadableIconEEEPT_P8_GObjectb[Gio::LoadableIcon* Glib::wrap_auto_interface<Gio::LoadableIcon>(_GObject*, bool)]+0x50): undefined reference to `__imp___ZN4Glib10ObjectBase20_get_current_wrapperEP8_GObject'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [test.exe] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/0S/a11/0build/CROSS/mm-2.14-gcc43/glibmm-2.18.1/tests/giomm_simple'


I tried building both static and shared libraries together,
but there seems to be some kind of binary incompatibility
between them, because while the build succeeded, I got
similar errors when linking my program against these static libraries.
Seems to be related to marking functions with dllimport.

Thanks,
Alexander