Re: Link errors on mingw crosscompile

[Ben Pfaff]

modules/close in gnulib has $(LIB_CLOSE) in its Link section.
That means that we're supposed to link against $(LIB_CLOSE),
which on mingw32 expands to -lws2_32.  I don't think we're
currently linking against $(LIB_CLOSE), so I guess that is our
bug.

I don't think anything in gnulib will make us link against
libwsock32.a.  If that is necessary, then maybe that's a gnulib
bug.

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> Trial and error shows that it's necessary to link against 
> libwsock32.a and libws2_32.a from mingw.  But I don't know how
> we would be supposed to add these dependencies.  Shouldn't gnulib
> look after that?
>
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 08:58:40PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
>      
>      > I get these errors when cross compiling to the mingw target.
>      >
>      > src/.libs/libpspp.a(close.o):close.c:(.text+0x2b): undefined reference
>      > to address@hidden'
>      > src/.libs/libpspp.a(close.o):close.c:(.text+0x43): undefined reference
>      > to address@hidden'
>      > src/.libs/libpspp.a(close.o):close.c:(.text+0x90): undefined reference
>      > to address@hidden'
>      > src/.libs/libpspp.a(close.o):close.c:(.text+0x9d): undefined reference
>      > to address@hidden'
>      >
>      >
>      > It's the latest gnulib commit, so perhaps this should be reported to
>      > them?
>      
>      This could easily be our fault: I wouldn't be surprised if we
>      were omitting some of the needed $(variables) or @variables@ from
>      the LDADD variables etc.  Did you look those over first?
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