Re: How to eliminate .dll dependency on Windows?

[Alberto Massari]

Hi Matt,

At 07.46 23/08/2005 -0500, Matt England wrote:
Hi Alberto,
At 8/23/2005 02:45 AM, Alberto Massari wrote:
Hi Matt,
if you download the latest code base (for version 2.7) you can use 
the solution file for Visual Studio .NET 2003 to build a static library.

Will such a library work with MinGW?

No, it probably won't work; I doubt gcc can read libraries created by 
cl. I just got the impression you were using MSVC on Windows.
If you have to use MinGW, you can try editing Makefile.incl and 
replace the line

MAKE_SHARED = dllwrap --export-all-symbols --driver-name c++ ${LDFLAGS}

with

MAKE_SHARED = ${CC} -D${PLATFORM} ${LDFLAGS}

Alberto

I've never tried doing something like this, but I'm skeptical about 
this working.

We have not reason for which I'm aware that we can not go to 2.7.

-Matt


If you have to stick with version 2.5, you can search the archives 
for the instructions to build static libraries on Windows.

Alberto