Hi Günter! Thanks for the additional background information.
Also, thanks very much for your libcurl builds! K. Frank On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Guenter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > On 17.08.2013 05:17, K. Frank wrote: >> >> I like your reasoning. I don't really know the history and reasoning >> behind >> the typical mingw library naming system, and hadn't realized that it >> limits >> one's flexibility in choosing which libraries to link statically vs. >> dynamically. > > this is no typical mingw naming system but the general behaviour of > windows-targeted configure builds. >> ... >> Also, do I surmise correctly that the naming convention for libcurl >> differs >> from that of, say, libcrypto because libcrypto is a separate project that >> you just use, and you don't elect to force your preferred naming >> convention >> on them? > > exactly; libcurl and libssh2 are under my control - OpenSSL is not. Beside > that the naming for libcurl existed already long before I took over > maintaining the static MinGW makefiles; I just kept it this way, and I > adopted it to libssh2 ... > ... > Gün. ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
