Re: question about dependencies

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:33:44PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>    This is a quick (and probably stupid) question about dependencies. I am
>> trying to build Pine to clear a problem with the mbx driver. It's not big
>> harm that there's a problem with it right now, but I think it's important
>> to support it for several reasons, which I won't discuss here, since it's
>> not the purpose of this message.
>>
>>    The only way that I've found that I can solve the problem is by linking
>> with "-lkernel32", which is a library included in the w32api package, so
>> the question is, if I were to release this new version of Pine, would that
>> require any change in the required list of packages?
>>
>>    (cygcheck returns 2 Dlls from C:\Windows\system32, I am not sure if I
>> can assume that those exist in the users machine or not).
>>
>>    Thanks,
>> Eduardo
>
>Eduardo,
>
>w32api contains import libraries that allow linking programs with standard
>Windows DLLs.  These import libraries are not needed afterwards to run the
>program - only the DLLs are.  kernel32.dll is a Windows DLL that will be
>present on any Windows machine, so you won't need extra dependences for
>that.  You may want to indicate w32api as a build dependence, though (in
>the README).

That shouldn't be necessary.  Every single windows program relies on
kernel32.dll.  gcc includes libkernel.a in it's link line by default.
There should be no need to include it on the gcc command line and there
should be no need to mention the dependency since gcc itself depends on
it.

cgf