Re: [Libusb-devel] cross-compiling libusb-1 (latest windows git) for mingw32

[Pete B. <pb...@gm...>]

On 2010.04.14 01:10, Michael Plante wrote:
> Ok, tracing through it in a debugger, examples/lsusb.exe seems to spawn
> examples/.libs/lsusb.exe .  This still doesn't explain the silent failure,
> but at least it explains why depends wasn't showing anything wrong.  I
> copied the wrong copy of lsusb.exe.  The examples/.libs/lsusb.exe does, in
> fact, have imports in the DLL.  Weird.

Now that rings a bell. For the binary archives, I'm also picking up the 
exes in .libs as I found the ones in the parent directory didn't work 
when relocated (which at the time, I thought was due to absolute path 
for DLL reference).

> So I guess it works, but didn't we decide to statically link the examples,
> or was that just msvc, and I was oblivious to the mingw decisions?

Only MSVC uses static by default, the main reason being that it's my 
prime testing environment and I prefer static. The default for 
DDK/MinGW/cygwin is DLL, which is comes either from following default 
options (configure.ac) or what other people picked (DDK).
For the binary builds, I do force static on the DDK examples, but leave 
DLL based for MinGW so that we can demonstrate both (the MinGW 
executables being the ones from .libs).

Regards,

/Pete