Re: [Wvware-devel] libwmf & GNU libtool

[Bob F. <bfr...@si...>]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, F J Franklin wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > If libwmf (and associated libraries) where to be built using GNU
> > libtool (and therefore be available as shared libraries), there would
> > be substantial benefit to packages (like ImageMagick) that need to
> > link against shared libraries in some cases.  Is this a direction that
> > libwmf is expecting to go?
> 
> This is in fact very easy to implement (using automake) - with one caveat:
> I have no experience with automake/libtool in non-Unix/Linux
> environments... The benefit of doing everything statically is that the
> Makefile can be nice, simple and generic.

I have experience with Automake & Libtool under Windows supplemented
with Cygwin.  With a couple of extra Autoconf macros (and a bit of
care) it is very easy to build static libraries (I have not tried
DLLs). Use of Libtool does not imply that dynamic libraries must be
built.  The user can be given the option to build static, shared, or
both.

Bob
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