External libs for kde4

[Peter Kümmel]

Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
> Von: "Peter Kümmel" <syntheticpp at gmx.net>
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>> Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
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>>> Peter Kümmel schrieb:
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>>>> Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
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>>> done, created .a with pexports & dlltool and removed static libs. The
>>> package is now ~1MB smaller :)
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>> Cool! So it is possible to produce a mingw lib from  msvc lib also in 
>> the case of C++?
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> No, this is C only. C++ name mangling + ABI between gcc and msvc is not consistent and therefore not possible.
> But we must take care about the manifest crap when we use C dll's (created with msvc) with gcc - so it's better to create them with msvc7.x until there is an easy way to work around the problems with manifests.
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> Christian
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I forgot:  libxml2.a is a C library.
Peter