Re: Will using cygwin help with back-linking?

[Jani tiainen <redetin at luukku dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:33:19AM +0300, Jani tiainen wrote:
>
> > And bad news is: libtool can't handle this (at least not to my knowledge).
> >
> > Because this is strictly windoze specific, this is also a offtopic of 
> > this mailinglist..
>
>
> I wouldn't call it off-topic if it is using the binutils and gcc
> provided by cygwin.

Well it depends. Since cygwin basically offers Linux API functionality, 
using shared libraries is a bit off a scope.

Of course cygwin could provide "full" emulation layer, but it would make 
cygwin much slower than currently is.

IMO current 3-tier system is very adequate. In some ocassions this back 
linking problem arises, and it can be solved. Well libtool directly 
doesn't provide way to do it but it can be done without it.

If "everything" that uses some cygwin tools is cygwin specific problem 
this list would flood over.

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Jani Tiainen

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