Re: [Libvisual-devel] Windows 32

[Duilio J. P. <dp...@fc...>]

> I'd like to try and get a libvisual.dll working under windows 32.
> 
> Tho I've got >zero< experience with this. So what is needed to run
> the autotools, and gcc under windows ?,

I heavily suggest to use Cygwin+Mingw. Cygwin is a Posix emulation layer
for Windows systems. Mingw stands for "Minimal GNU on Windows".

You can build all the thing using Cygwin alone, but in that case the
libraries are linked against libcygwin.dll.a, and you need to distribute
it along with libvisual in your releases. But if you use Mingw, you link
against Window's dlls, so the only thing needed is Windows itself.

> and how can we make sure that
> things like 'dlopen' are staticly linked ?

dlopen on Windows requires special care, I will post more on this issue
soon.

You must also choose which installer to use, to start adjusting things
for them.


Bye,
Duilio.