Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:55:54 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: wvWare and cygwin Message-ID: <20030213205554.GK32279@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <016401c2d379$4959ca40$78d96f83@pomello> <20030213204349.63545.qmail@web12306.mail.yahoo.com> <20030213204853.GI32279@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030213204853.GI32279@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:48:54PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:43:49PM -0800, neal somos wrote: >>If I make the following change to wv2's configure, I can then make the package >> >>25826c25826 >>< ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5' >>--- >>> ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LDFLAGS $LIBS >&5' >> >>Basically ... >> gcc -o conftest.exe -O2 -liconv conftest.c >>produces quite different results from >> gcc -o conftest.exe -O2 conftest.c -liconv >>which are the compile lines from the test being run by configure. >> >>How the original test works elsewhere but fails on cygwin >>is beyond me at this time. > >It's probably expecting that it can do something put like > >extern int libiconv_close(); > >in a source file and then just link it. That doesn't necessarily work >on Windows. You may have to mark the declaration with declspec(dllimport);. > >The function should be auto-imported automatically but maybe there is >a warning showing up or something which is confusing autoconf. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/