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Re: Building GnuTLS 3.0.9 on MS-Windows
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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos |
Subject: |
Re: Building GnuTLS 3.0.9 on MS-Windows |
Date: |
Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:19:19 +0100 |
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On 01/08/2012 12:12 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> My analysis of this was that it is impossible to build both static
>>> and dynamic libraries on Windows in the same build. If that is true,
>>> then the `configure' script should be modified to not try that by
>>> default; the default should probably build only the dynamic
>>> libraries. In any case, configuring with ./configure
>>> --build=i686-pc-mingw32 --prefix=/d/usr --disable-shared succeeds and
>>> produces a static library libgnutls.a (but not before bumping into a
>>> couple of more problems, described below).
[...]
>> Thus it looks like a libtool bug. However I'd suggest you use the alternative
>> option of building a shared libgnutls instead so you can replace it in
>> case of important security fixes (e.g. now the one with DTLS).
> Sorry, I'm not following: which "alternative option"?
Hello,
I meant using --disable-static and --enable-shared instead.
regards,
Nikos