Re: gettext cvs

[Charles Wilson]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> The Patch
> ----------------
> (1) autoconfery: hack so that autogen.sh updates libtool. There's no way 
> any sane maintainer would apply this, but I'm including it for 
> completeness.  Basically, libtool needs to use -DDLL_EXPORT everywhere 
                                   ^ for cygwin
> mingw does.
 ^ libtool for

> (3) automakery1: gettext-tools/[lib|src]/Makefile.am, gettext-tools 
> libgrep/Makefile.am, and gettext-tools/test/Makefile,am: add 
> -DBUILDING_LIBGETTEXT[LIB|SRC] to libgettext[lib|src]_la_CFLAGS.  Change 
> conditional from MINGW to WOE32GCC. If conditional WOE32GCC true, add 
                                                             ^_SHLIBS
> '-DDLL_EXPORT -D_DLL' to all per-executable *_CPPFLAGS.

Because (a) libtool doesn't do this for us, and (b) we're using 
DLL_EXPORT here to indicate NOT that we're building a DLL, but that the 
headers for the DLLs we're linking against need to do 
declspec(dllimport) for us.  There's an extended commentary about this 
in the patch to gettext-tools/configure.ac.

--
Chuck