Re: MinGW & library_names

[Howard Chu]

Charles Wilson wrote:

> Albert Chin wrote:
>
> > If *.dll.a is still needed in library_names in the .la file, I guess
> > there is no choice. Seems icky though.

> It's because library_names is used for multiple purposes by the libtool 
> machinery and by libltdl.  One is the names that can be linked against 
> (.a, .dll.a, and .dll), while the other is the names that can be 
> dlopen/LoadLibrary'ed (.a, .dll).
>
> On (all?) other platforms, those two sets are identical; on 
> cygwin/windows, they are not.

Just fyi, on z/OS (IBM OS/390) the two are also not identical. The file 
that can be linked against is actually the export list (foo.x) while the 
 file that can be dlopen'd is the DLL.
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