Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <00ff01c05fe5$7308a5f0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Julia A . Case" , References: <20001206152437.A23334@MageNet.com> Subject: Re: checking if package supports DLLs...no Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 11:34:23 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 The reason it says no is that the programmer hasn't added in the necessary information in the source package to support dll building. The "no" is returned by libtool. Changing it to yes will not result in a functional dll. You would have to go through the source and alter all the data-only exports to be explicitly exported a la MS .DLL source code.. have a search for Gary Vaughn on this lists archives. Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia A . Case" To: Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 7:24 AM Subject: checking if package supports DLLs...no > When I run configure under cygwin I get the above message, shouldn't it > say yes? > > Julie > > -- > [ Julia Anne Case ] [ Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] > [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for. ] > [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] > [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair is where you take your cows to be judged. ] > > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com