[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Question over version appended to windows DLL
- From: Bert Frees <bertfrees@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:00:29 +0200
Yes, configure.ac is what I meant of course, sorry. I may well be
possible that it doesn't work because I just made it up without
testing. I must have overlooked something.
I think what you ended up with should work too, don't think it will have
any negative effects.
Michael Whapples writes:
> I am having some trouble with what you describe for how to implement
> this. See my inline comments.
> On 22/09/2014 10:46, Bert Frees wrote:
>> Michael Whapples writes:
>>
>>> When I was discussing this for the MSVC build scripts it was accepted to
>>> drop this -2 part of the output DLL name.
>>>
>>> I would like to ask the same for the GNU make system as well so that
>>> building with mingw-w64 will result in liblouis.dll as well.
>>>
>>> NOTE: Just renaming it will not be sufficient, it should be done at
>>> build time. [...]
>> I know it can be done by adding -avoid-version to
>> liblouis_la_LDFLAGS. To do it for Windows builds only we probably need
>> something like this in configure.in:
> I cannot find configure.in, do you mean configure.ac?
>> liblouis_la_LDFLAGS_MINGW_EXTRA=
>> case "$host" in
>> *-*-mingw*)
>> liblouis_la_LDFLAGS_MINGW_EXTRA="-avoid-version"
>> ;;
>> esac
>> AC_SUBST(liblouis_la_LDFLAGS_MINGW_EXTRA)
>>
>> and in liblouis/Makefile.am:
>>
>> liblouis_la_LDFLAGS = @liblouis_la_LDFLAGS_MINGW_EXTRA@ ...
>>
> When putting @liblouis_la_LDFLAGS_MINGW_EXTRA@ in liblouis_la_LDFLAGS in
> liblouis/Makefile.am it does not seem to be being substituted when I
> build. As I said I could not find configure.in so used configure.ac
> instead. NOTE: I did the modifications to configure.ac and
> liblouis/Makefile.am before I even did ./autogen.sh so it is not a case
> of old generated files being used.
>
> As an alternative I have tried in configure.ac, where there is a block
> for windows builds which does:
> CFLAGS="-Wl,--add-stdcall-alias"
> I added inside the conditional block the line:
> LDFLAGS="-avoid-version"
> This did work, but I don't know whether it will have negative issues
> elsewhere.
>
> Please suggest how best to deal with this.
>>> I think we need to make it so the mingw-w64 and the MSVC build files
>>> will give the same named outputs.
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>
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