Re: call AC_DISABLE_SHARED "conditionally" for a certain host

[Christopher Hulbert]

Try something like this:

AC_DISABLE_STATIC
AC_ENABLE_SHARED

case $host in
    *mingw*)
        AC_ENABLE_STATIC
        AC_DISABLE_SHARED
        ;;
esac

AC_PROG_LIBTOOL

On 2/14/06, Florian Schricker <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi everybody on this list!
>
>
> Currently I am on the way on moving some software projects from custom
> makefiles to autoconf. These projects mostly depend on Xerces-C; since
> we want to support Linux, Darwin & MinGW32 I ran into trouble with DLLs
> on MinGW32 depending on Xerces-C DLLs so, for the first releases I
> figured I might just want to disable shared libs on MinGW32  before
> digging deeper on where the problems are.
>
> To do so I did:
>
>         AC_CANONICAL_HOST
>         case "$host" in
>           *-*-linux* | *-*-darwin*)
>             ;;
>           *-*-mingw32*)
>             AC_DISABLE_SHARED
>             ;;
>         esac
>
> But I guess I am missing something; it does not work. Running this
> configure on GNU/Linux gives:
>
>         checking whether to build shared libraries...
>         checking whether to build static libraries... yes
>
> and config.log contains
>
>         configure:9339: checking whether to build shared libraries
>         configure:9360: result:
>
> showing "no result" and no shared libs is created while the static
> archive is created.
>
> On MinGW32 I get the same - but since I want no shared lib created there
> it's "fine", but the problem above on GNU/Linux shows that I seem to do
> something basically wrong.
>
> Anybody an idea? Is using AC_DISABLE_SHARED like this not supported or
> discouraged for any reason?
>
> Any help would be so much appreciated; it's one of the last obstacles
> before our first release ;-)
>
>
> --
> regards,
> Florian Schricker
> Institute of Software Technology
> University of Koblenz-Landau
>
>
>
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