Re: MS lib program in msys

[Howard Chu]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Christopher,
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
> * Christopher Hulbert wrote on Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 04:10:18PM CET:
>   
> > Libtool uses MS's lib program when not using gcc in windows. On msys
> > "lib /out:.libs/liba.lib" is translated to "lib
> > C:\msys1.0\OUT;.libs\liba.lib". I'm not sure when lib (or windows)
> > started accepting "-" for options, but "lib -out" fixes the problem on
> > Windows XP. Would there be any objection to changing that in mainline
> > libtool?
> >     
>
> I think that when we put that in, there were some older MSVC versions
> that did no accept -out.  May be remembering wrongly, though.
>   

Pretty sure "-" has been valid since at least Win95. Definitely this 
should be changed.
>   
> > address@hidden ~
> > $ lib /OUT:.libs/liba.lib
> > Microsoft (R) Library Manager Version 7.10.3077
> > Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> >
> > LIB : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'C:\msys1.0\OUT;.libs\liba.lib'
> >     
>
> Does
>   lib //OUT:.libs/liba.lib
>
> work?  Does anybody know whether doubling the slash can lead to problems
> when used under Cygwin (I think they address shares that way)?  Not that
> the Cygwin/MSVC combo works with Libtool now...
>   

On MSYS //foo becomes /foo, so it would work. On Cygwin //foo is left 
alone, so it would not work. Please just change everything to use dashes.

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