Daniel Stenberg wrote:
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Mark Brand wrote:
However, naively linking Windows applications to static libcurl does
not work due to CURL_EXTERN introducing the dreaded _imp prefix in
the public headers.
It seems like a reasonable measure to me to add -DCURL_STATICLIB to
Cflags in libcurl.pc. This defines away CURL_EXTERN and linking works
as expected. Or is there a better way?
Wait, you're using libcurl.pc on windows?
Yes, libcurl.pc works nicely in a static mingw setup such as MXE
(formally mingw-cross-env).
And can we really do that to libcurl.pc without ruining how it is used
for "normal" shared linking?
-DCURL_STATICLIB should appear in libcurl.pc only when libcurl is built
only as a static library. I imagine this should be sensitive to the
configure option '--disable-shared'.
This solution is not suitable for a configuration building both static
and shared libcurl, but I don't think this can be done using mingw
anyway, which is the important case.
Mark
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