[Mingw-users] ar problem

[Lars I. I. <la...@st...>]

Hi

I am trying to build the Coin library (www.coin3d.org) using MinGW. The
only supported way to build it on Windows has been with msvc.

The compilation itself works like a charm (Coin builds without problems
on most unix platforms), but when it comes to the linking stage (which =
use
libtool 1.4.2), something strange happens. Libtool use "ar x ..." to =
combine
the compiled objects from the different directories. This seems to work
nicely until the process suddenly chockes on this command:

(cd .libs/libCoin.lax/libnodes.al && ar x =
/c/projects/build/CoinMW/src/nodes/.libs/libnodes.al)
../libtool: /mingw/bin/ar: Invalid argument
make[2]: *** [libCoin.la] Error 126

Calling the exact same command from the MSYS command line seems to
work fine. The whole process goes without a hitch in cygwin.

Is this a mingw problem, a libtool problem or something else?

ar version is 2.13

Thanks for any suggestions,
Lars Ivar Igesund