[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add SLIB_UNINSTALL_EXTRA_CMD to build system.
Ramiro Polla
ramiro
Sat Oct 13 16:51:14 CEST 2007
Dave Yeo wrote:
> On 10/08/07 06:28 am, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:16:26PM -0700, Dave Yeo wrote:
> >> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 09:38:39PM -0700, Dave Yeo wrote:
> >>>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> ...
> >>>> Note also that we (and also Windows?) need an extra uninstall
> command as
> >>>> well in a future patch.
> >>> Patches welcome.
> >> Yes, well one patch at a time :)
> >
> > Let's see the patch right away. If it is needed on Windows I'll likely
> > apply it right away.
> >
> ...
> I've attached a quick untested patch for mingw, should uninstall the
> same lib installed by SLIB_INSTALL_EXTRA_CMD. Though I am somewhat
> confused as I thought the SLIB_INSTALL_EXTRA_CMD was installing an
> import lib yet it seems to be installing the DLL with a .lib suffix
> instead of .dll.
This is an MSVC import lib.
> Also it looks like gcc is creating an import lib with the suffix of
> .dll.a which is not installed.
> Kept to the same style as used in the rest of mingw section of configure.
> Also cygwin has similar behaviour, looks like it creates an import lib
> but never installs it.
> Do both cygwin and mingw allow directly linking against DLLs and if so
> what is the point of creating import libs and in mingw case installing
> the DLL with a lib suffix?
Reading [1], it seems OK to remove them. I'll apply attached patch
tomorrow unless someone has a good reason to object.
Ramiro Polla
[1] http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.18/ld/WIN32.html
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