importlibraries names

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Hallo Corinna,

>> Would it be a problem to create the symlinks to be libxyz.a instead of
>> libxyz.dll.a in future releases or use the same names of the
>> importlibraries as it was before, without version included?

> No.  There are two types of import libs:

> libfoo.dll.a which results in linking against the apropriate DLL and
> libfoo.a which is the static lib.  This scheme has been settled already
> loooong ago and is obeyed by binutils.  If the configuration script
> gets this wrong, the configuration script should be fixed.

Hmmm, since there are no .dll.a import libraries on linux, pretty much
configure scripts are failing at this point.  It works well as long as
static and import libraries are provided as it is the case with the most
packages, but if there are no static libraries, what is lost if there
are no .dll.a files?


Gerrit
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