On Jul 22, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -l arguments are silently removed from the link line
Not silently. You got a *very* verbose message explaining the
problem:
> *** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by -lgdi32.
> *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when
> *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a
> *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have.
> *** The inter-library dependencies that have been dropped here will be
> *** automatically added whenever a program is linked with this library
> *** or is declared to -dlopen it.
There are actually two problems to be addressed in libtool. First, it
appears that newer versions of binutils do support including code from
static libraries into DLLs. I don't know if there are additional
requirements upon such static libraries, though, such as having them
compiled with -fPIC and/or with __declspec(export) (sp?).
The second problem is that, when you specify -no-undefined but libtool
drops some libraries because it can't satisfy the deplibs_check_method
for at least one of the dependency libraries, and the platform doesn't
allow_undefined, libtool should only create a static library.
--
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