RE: Imake and DLLs under Cygwin

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>]

> The imake rules on Solaris don't produce make rules that require
> a .def file
> since the mechanism to produce shared libraries is different on
> Solaris.  This
> wasn't a problem with the Solaris build.

You did not understand my point.
use nm and sed to make *.def file using nm and sed of your lib*.a or lib*.so
whatever.

>
> > > I'm going on holiday now - where?  The USA!
> > oh? where,east, south, west, north, mideast, southeast, northeast...
> > unfortunately USA is too big to figure out where you would be in USA ;-)
>
> East, west, and middle (DC, SF and the Rockies).

Have fun.  Just do not go to Southeast DC, unless you want to get robbed of
every pennies you would have.  I lived in DC area thus this is the only
thing I would suggest.

>
> > N/P. For Cygwin users: today a conversation at Xfree86 developers list
> > started a thread on Cygw-xfree.  Literally over 100 messages
> came within an
> > hour and some (at least couple) from a commercial setup of Cygwin like
> > product were suggesting that Cygwin would never work.  The only
> way to go is
> > use MSVC and their products, plus rewrite 99% of the Xfree86
> code with Win32
> > API!!! huh?
>
> What reasons did they give?

Reasons?  Very simple... so the would be X-sever would get hooked to their
products.  They did not give these reasons in writing but that is what I
would conclude.


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