Re: [ft-devel] FreeType DLL support

[Vincent Torri]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> My msys2 builds produces the following:
>
> libfreetype.a (static)
> libfreetype.def
>
> libfreetype.dll.a (import)

that's the way libtool name the import library. The gnu linker (ld)
looks at that name so no problem here (see
https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.17/ld/WIN32.html ("direct
linking to a DLL" section))

Vincent

> msys-freetype-6.dll
> msys-freetype-6.dll.def
>
> This looks a bit strange. Do we (or libtool?) forget to rename
> libfreetype.dll.a? Is this so called import library? The import
> library has been produced only recently after we added
> dllimport/dllexport.
>
> My MSVC builds produce
>
> freetype.lib (static)
>
> freetype.lib (import)
> freetype.dll
>
> I do not like that the naming is inconsistent altogether. Any suggestions?
>
> Alexei
>
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> Alexei