Re: [PATCH] dynamic object-file support for *-*-mingw32 and *-*-msys

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> From: Pekka Seppänen <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 19:25:35 +0300
> 
> To summarize, in the future, I'd like to be able to build a shared DLL 
> library for GNU Make (on msys, on msys-mingw, on mingw, or whatever 
> POSIX alike layer runs on a native Windows). It is techinically 
> possible, but the only thing currently lacking is that either a) 
> libgnumake-1.dll.a is not built, b) nor it doesn't end up in the binary 
> distribution, unless the binary distributer happens to manually 
> copy/install that file.

Installing Windows import libraries is commonplace in GNU projects,
and yet I never saw those projects using WINDOWSENV or similar
tricks.  All we need is add a variable that would be mpty on other
systems and libgnumake-$(VERSION).dll on MS-Windows.

IOW, I still don't understand why would we need to do this the way you
suggest, if all that's missing is commands to install the import
library.