Teun Burgers wrote:
To the libxml2 maintainer:
See also
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00888.html
The libxml2-devel packages contains an import library (libxml2.dll.a),
but no static archive (libxml2.a). Most other packages do, e.g.
libpng12-devel. What is the reason for this?
The reason is: I use the flag ' --disable-static'. It lasts
half the time to compile only the DLL.
I would like to suggest to add a static archive to allow
building statically linked binaries and for consistency
with other devel packages.
There are cygwin itself, most X libraries, apr / apr-util, aspell,
atk, audiofile, glib, gtk, gettext, gmp, gnome, guile, pango and
probably some more which don't include static archives.
Do you really need the static archive?
Gerrit
