Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Why 32bit and 64bit dlls installing in the same directory?

[JonY <jo...@us...>]

On 3/28/2012 19:46, xunxun wrote:
> You can refer to the patch from tdm
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:41 PM, niXman wrote:
>> Hello list!
>>
>> multilib mingw. When "make install" installs the 32bit and 64bit dlls
>> in  the same directory, so overwrites one of the dlls.
>>
>> Is necessary to set a special flag for configure? which one?
>>
>> For example: line 492 and 828, http://pastebin.com/B2cf2XT0
>>
>> Thanks.
>>

Next time, please do not use pastebin for recorded email messages. It
makes your message useless for future references if pastebin deletes it.
Finally, please avoid quoting email addresses if possible, don't feed
the spammers.

Anyway, this is a known issue since DLLs are always installed to "bin"
as opposed to libdir like in Linux, if you do change it to libdir, some
users will complain about the DLL not in path, so its a no-win
situation. If I remember correctly, DLLs go into libdir for cross
compile mode GCC special case.

The easiest workaround is to simply copy the DLLs manually after make
install.