On 05/16/2011 02:14 PM, Alon Levy wrote:
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 02:07:55PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 05/16/2011 02:06 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Usually programs that are fully autoconf-iscated will ship a subset of
libtool sources in the tarball, build a custom version at configure
time, and invoke it from the Makefile via ./libtool. This has the
advantage that only the maintainer needs to have libtool installed. OTOH
we do not use Autoconf and I think this contributes to 99% of the bad
name for Autoconf, so it's not something we want.
Another option would be to not use autoconf at all.
^^^^^^^^
You probably mean libtool?
Building ELF shared
libs isn't that difficuilt these days. Question is whenever there is any
non-ELF platform we care about (Windows maybe?).
... and Darwin?
For linux all that is needed is to recompile all required sources with -fPIC
(doesn't
make sense to force that on the objects linked to the rest of qemu), and link
them with
gcc -shared. Does that work on Darwin? on Windows (mingw / cygwin)?
No :(
Windows is a total mess, but Darwin is only slightly better and the
naming conventions differ too (.dylib instead of .so for example).
Paolo
