Imake and DLLs under Cygwin

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

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> Okay: that's what I did in effect.  The lib*.a built correctly,
> but then make
> stopped, telling me there was no rule to make *-def.cpp.  I want
> to hand the
> product to people who will develop it on Solaris and hope that it
> will then
> rebuild under Cygwin without a problem.  I didn't know what a
> *-def.cpp was, so
> I just made a *.def and considered rewriting the imake rule so
> that it skipped
> the *-def.cpp bit.  But I'd rather not mess with it in case I
> regret it later.
> Now it's okay - just a *-def.cpp is just a *.def with
> LIBRARY_VERSION in it
> where cpp (through a imake rule called SharedLibraryTarget) can stick the
> version number.  I made up the file with 'nm' and then manually.



That is how I make *-def.cpp files... make them on Unices using Unices libs
then ftp them to Win32 and compile code.



>
> > Have fun.  Just do not go to Southeast DC, unless you want to
> get robbed of
> > every pennies you would have.  I lived in DC area thus this is the only
> > thing I would suggest.
>
> Advice accepted!
>
>