"External" Libraries in KDE4 apps

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Andreas Pakulat schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to get some clarifications about the various issues with
> libraries on win32.
> 
> Is it possible to use static libraries on win32? If so whats needed for
> that, I guess 2 separate builds for mingw and msvc?
> 
it is possible as long as you use the same compiler switches for all
libs you want to combine.
> Is it relatively easy to convert a static lib into a shared lib when
> 
> - its a shared lib on unix already (but seemingly not using gcc
> visibility)
> - the list of to-be-exported classes is very clearly defined
> ?
Imho there's no chance to convert a shared lib to a static one and vice
versa.
> 
> In case you're wondering: I'm going to change KDevPlatform's dependecy
> on the subversion C-library to RapidSVN's libsvncpp. As far as I can see
> they only provide MSVC-Buildsystem for win32 (unix uses autohell) and
> those dsp-files build a static lib.
Did you try to compile with msys?
> 
> @Christian: Also I just checked again on the subversion stuff, the
> problem with the binary packages from the project is that those have
> only static libs for MSVC (for svn 1.4, IIRC its going to change for
> 1.5). Thats the reason I've gone through the hassle of building svn with
> MSVC here, to provide dll's for the client libs and apropriate  import
> libs for mingw.
> 
Ok, looks like we should wait for 1.5 :)

Christian