Re: [PING] Plugin support on Windows/MinGW

2017-11-26 Thread JonY
On 11/23/2017 11:34 AM, JonY wrote: > On 11/22/2017 11:14 AM, Boris Kolpackov wrote: >> JonY <10wa...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Is there a problem with using .so for internal libraries instead of >>> "dll"... >> >> I think not but I haven't tested it. The problem with using .so instead >> of .dll i

Re: [PING] Plugin support on Windows/MinGW

2017-11-23 Thread Pedro Alves
On 11/23/2017 12:06 PM, Boris Kolpackov wrote: > JonY <10wa...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Libtool shouldn't matter since it is not used to build those, [...] > > We don't know which build system the plugin author will use to build > the plugin. We can, however, reasonably expect that it will be able

Re: [PING] Plugin support on Windows/MinGW

2017-11-23 Thread Boris Kolpackov
JonY <10wa...@gmail.com> writes: > Libtool shouldn't matter since it is not used to build those, [...] We don't know which build system the plugin author will use to build the plugin. We can, however, reasonably expect that it will be able to produce a shared library with the platform-standard ex

Re: [PING] Plugin support on Windows/MinGW

2017-11-23 Thread JonY
On 11/22/2017 11:14 AM, Boris Kolpackov wrote: > JonY <10wa...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Is there a problem with using .so for internal libraries instead of >> "dll"... > > I think not but I haven't tested it. The problem with using .so instead > of .dll is that producing this non-standard extensio

Re: [PING] Plugin support on Windows/MinGW

2017-11-22 Thread Boris Kolpackov
JonY <10wa...@gmail.com> writes: > Is there a problem with using .so for internal libraries instead of > "dll"... I think not but I haven't tested it. The problem with using .so instead of .dll is that producing this non-standard extension may not be easy or possible depending on the build system

Re: [PING] Plugin support on Windows/MinGW

2017-11-22 Thread JonY
On 11/21/2017 07:03 AM, Boris Kolpackov wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to ping this patch: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-11/msg01040.html > > The changes are fairly conservative: they do not touch much of the > existing module implementation and plugin support on MinGW is disabled >