building libraries with mingw

[Christian Ehrlicher]

> Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
> >> Von: Ralf Habacker
> >> Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
> >>     
> >>>> Von: Ralf Habacker
> >>>> Saro Engels schrieb:
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>>>> I currently try to make kde-network compile with mingw and there are
> >>>>> still some errors left; Since I wanted to get jabber support as
> well,
> >>>>>           
> >> I 
> >>     
> >>>>> try to build libidn myself, but I had no luck yet.
> >>>>>   
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>           
> >>>> If you refering to libidn from http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/
> the 
> >>>> reason is because libidn uses automake, which does not work well
> under 
> >>>> native win32.
> >>>>
> >>>> You can try to use a  custom Makefile to generate the library and
> tools
> >>>> or to port it to the cmake buildsystem (see www.cmake.org for more 
> >>>> informations)
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> stop please. Don't make double work and just ask me ;-)
> >>> Or ask Serhiy Kachanuk - he already build kopete on win32 with jabber
> >>>       
> >> and my libidn lib.
> >>     
> >>> http://web779.michelle.webhoster.ag/kde/libidn-1.0-1.7z
> >>>
> >>> Be aware that this lib is only tested by serzh - I have had no time to
> >>>       
> >> test it by my own. It's a combined mingw/msvc lib (because it's c only)
> >>     
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> How do you have build this with msvc - with a custom make file or do
> you 
> >> have added cmake support  ?
> >>
> >>     
> > It's a c-only lib - no need to compile it with two different compilers.
> I build it with mingw/msys/automake (including some changes I already sent
> to libidn devs, see attachment) and recreated the import lib. That's the
> 'normal' way when building C-only libs on win32.
> >   
> This may work for release libraries, but aren't there problems with msvc 
> mixing release and/debug libraries ?
Not as long as you don't pass e.g FILE or other structures which have different sizes in msvc debug and release mode. Normally a lib should never do this (ok, kdewin lib is an exception)
> How could a msvc developer create a 
> debug library for his own using msys ?
> 
No chance, you have to write a cmake script.

Christian
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