Vivien Kraus wrote: > In manual section 19.2 Controlling the Exported Symbols of Shared > Libraries,
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Exported-Symbols-of-Shared-Libraries.html > I see you define BUILDING_SHARED to 1 if "$enable_shared" is > "yes", and 0 otherwise. Yes. > This seems to be a Windows-specific thing, but when I run ./configure - > -help, I read: > > --enable-shared[=PKGS] build shared libraries [default=yes] > > So if I don’t touch this option, enable_shared should be "yes", right? For some --enable/disable-* macros, the displayed default is incorrect. > So BUILDING_SHARED should be 1. However I observe a value of 0. Did I > miss something? Is 0 the expected value? If you get 0 here, it means that the LT_INIT macro in your configure.ac determined that it cannot enable shared libraries. Most likely because you did not pass a set of working configure options. For a correct set, see [1] or [2]. > Also, the help line indicates that maybe the value will be something > other than "yes", but I don’t really understand what PKGS would be > here. I could not find a mention of enable-shared or enable_shared in > the autoconf manual nor the INSTALL default instructions. Would 0 be > the correct value here too? To answer detailed questions like that, you need to inspect the generated configure script. Bruno [1] https://gitlab.com/ghwiki/gnow-how/-/wikis/Platforms/Configuration [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=blob;f=INSTALL.windows
