installing libs on Windows

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 22.07.07 18:53:12, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Sunday 22 July 2007 11:23, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 22.07.07 10:15:27, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > On Saturday 21 July 2007 09:37, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > > Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > > >As far as I can see this is the standard on Windows anyway, and I
> > > > > don't see what _problem_ we would really solve by introducing a more
> > > > > complex syntax.
> > > >
> > > > We just mustn't forget to set PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR and
> > > > LIBEXEC_INSTALL_DIR correctly, so as to not create subdirs in bin/
> > >
> > > The .exe, .dll and .lib would go to bin/, the rest to lib/.
> > > Sounds good IMO (ok, actually I don't have a problem with the current
> > > installation).
> > >
> > > Windows developers ?
> >
> > As I already said: .lib needs to go to lib/ as well. Only the dll's need
> > to go wit the .exe to bin/
> 
> I mean, except that they *should* go to lib/, would there be a real problem if 
> they are in bin/ ?

AFAIK the compiler (at least mingw32) expects the imports libs in lib/
not in bin/. Or we'd have to add bin/ as a library dir (i.e. have
-L<kde4>/bin)

Andreas

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