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RE: Imake and DLLs under Cygwin
- To: "Richard" <hicklinr@mcd.alcatel.be>
- Subject: RE: Imake and DLLs under Cygwin
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:04:33 -0400
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
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> Okay: that's what I did in effect. The lib*.a built correctly,
> but then make
> stopped, telling me there was no rule to make *-def.cpp. I want
> to hand the
> product to people who will develop it on Solaris and hope that it
> will then
> rebuild under Cygwin without a problem. I didn't know what a
> *-def.cpp was, so
> I just made a *.def and considered rewriting the imake rule so
> that it skipped
> the *-def.cpp bit. But I'd rather not mess with it in case I
> regret it later.
> Now it's okay - just a *-def.cpp is just a *.def with
> LIBRARY_VERSION in it
> where cpp (through a imake rule called SharedLibraryTarget) can stick the
> version number. I made up the file with 'nm' and then manually.
That is how I make *-def.cpp files... make them on Unices using Unices libs
then ftp them to Win32 and compile code.
>
> > Have fun. Just do not go to Southeast DC, unless you want to
> get robbed of
> > every pennies you would have. I lived in DC area thus this is the only
> > thing I would suggest.
>
> Advice accepted!
>
>