Imake and DLLs under Cygwin

[Richard]

> > So with imake the 'foo-def.cpp' for libfoo.dll is just the 'foo.def' but
> > with 'LIBRARY_VERSION' so that the imake rule can parameterise
> > that through
> > the preprocessor - in case anyone else has the same problem.
> Why can you not make the foo-def.cpp on Sun?  You wrote you had
> your software working on Sun? Am I right? You can use nm and sed on libs you
> compiled on Sun  to make
> your fpp-def.cpp then ftp over to Win32 and compile.

The imake rules on Solaris don't produce make rules that require a .def file
since the mechanism to produce shared libraries is different on Solaris.  This
wasn't a problem with the Solaris build.

> > I'm going on holiday now - where?  The USA!
> oh? where,east, south, west, north, mideast, southeast, northeast...
> unfortunately USA is too big to figure out where you would be in USA ;-)

East, west, and middle (DC, SF and the Rockies).

> N/P. For Cygwin users: today a conversation at Xfree86 developers list
> started a thread on Cygw-xfree.  Literally over 100 messages came within an
> hour and some (at least couple) from a commercial setup of Cygwin like
> product were suggesting that Cygwin would never work.  The only way to go is
> use MSVC and their products, plus rewrite 99% of the Xfree86 code with Win32
> API!!! huh?

What reasons did they give?