Re: [ft-devel] ftver.rc on Linux

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 1:50 PM, Derek B. Noonburg
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 May 2018 09:31:10 -0400
> Alexei Podtelezhnikov <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 7:19 PM, Derek B. Noonburg
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > In any case, success of LT_PROG_RC doesn't imply that <windows.h>
>> > exists, or that we want the DLL resource file at all -- it's
>> > presumably not useful when building a Linux library.
>>
>> make RC='' would work around the issue for you. If windres is provided
>> for cross-compilation, windows.h should be provided as well in a
>> reasonable cross-compilation setup. I would not want to drop it from
>> ftver.rc. It is true that it is only useful for DLL. I wonder if
>> LT_INIT(win32-dll) defines something when successful.
>
> I'm not sure how to test for that in the Makefile, but there's presumably
> some way to do it (?)

Libtool adds -DDLL_EXPORT under certain conditions. I am debating if
LT_PROG_RC should be called under the same conditions or -DDLL_EXPORT
should be checked in the Makefile? RC is libtoolized too, isn;t it? In
theory libtool knows what it is building.