installing libs on Windows

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 24.07.07 09:13:21, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 23.07.07 22:25:42, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Monday 23 July 2007 04:53, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > 
> > > > Then we can set LIB_INSTALL_DIR to bin/ on Windows, and introduce a new
> > > > STATLIB_INSTALL_DIR. If somebody forgets this second part, the only
> > > > problem will be that the lib file will end up in bin/ instead of lib, but
> > > > I think this is not a real problem.
> > >
> > > You're confused I think. I can't tell how msvc handles this but for
> > > mingw we have:
> > >
> > > .exe == executable program
> > > .dll == shared library
> > > .lib == import library for the corresponding dll, this is needed to link
> > > against the dll
> > > .a   == static library
> > >
> > > So We still need the 3-line version as dll+exe go into bin/ and
> > > static+import lib go into lib/
> > 
> > I didn't try it, but please tell me which problem you mean.
> 
> The original problem of having to add LIB_INSTALL_DIR to PATH because
> the dll's are in LIB_INSTALL_DIR and not in BIN_INSTALL_DIR.
> 
> > Have a look at the sources.
> > The example above should be equivalent to 
> > INSTALL(TARGETS kdecore
> >                             RUNTIME DESTINATION ${LIB_INSTALL_DIR}
> >                             LIBRARY DESTINATION ${LIB_INSTALL_DIR}
> >                             ARCHIVE DESTINATION ${STATLIB_INSTALL_DIR})
> 
> Which is not what we (win32 people) were asking for. We don't want to
> install the static libraries somewhere else, we want to put the RUNTIME
> into BIN_INSTALL_DIR instead of LIB_INSTALL_DIR.

Uhm, sorry. Obviously I didn't do my homework and misunderstood what
ARCHIVE means. More verbose answer directly to your initial proposal.

Andreas

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