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From:	"Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To:	"Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>,
	"Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>
Cc:	"cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1
Date:	Sun, 16 Feb 2003 22:16:01 -0000
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Charles Wilson wrote:
>> Ralf Habacker wrote:
>>>>> BTW: Do you know which libraries are also hybrid execpt of
>>>>> cygwin1.dll ?
>>>
>>>
>>>> There are about a half-dozen in /usr/lib/w32api -- and worse, the
>>>> static
>>>
>>> members are "bad" variable  types; if you make the static members
>>> part of the DLL, then these vars can't be auto-imported without
>>> using pseudo-relocs. Of course, since the DLLs are provided by MS,
>>> we can't really modify what is in them.
>>>
>>> Thats very bad.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah.  I don't know why these implibs need to declare these static
>> structures; it's possible that w32api is just following the lead of
>> the corresponding .lib files in the MSVC distribution.
>>
>> But, that's neither here nor there.  IF these crossbreed implibs are
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
libuuid.a at least is static *only* - not crossbreed. So there really is no
way for libtool know to allow it except by name.

>> detected as "import libraries" then libtool will let you link a
>> sharedlib using them as dependencies.

Max.


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