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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:59:16 -0400
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Subject: Re: libpng14-devel does not provide libpng.dll.a
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On 8/12/2010 11:30 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> libpng14-devel provides libpng.a and libpng.la symlinks, but no
> libpng.dll.a symlink.  I presume this is unintentional?

Yes. They changed the way these symlinks were done, to this:

        for ext in a la so
so DOT  AT PNGLIB_MAJOR@@PNGLIB_MINOR@.@PNGLIB_RELEASE@ sl dylib; do\

but dll.a is missing from that list. I'll roll out a replacement Sunday.

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Chuck


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