Re: [Mingw-users] using VC++ .lib with mingw

[Mandibull <man...@gm...>]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ian Puleston
<ia...@un...>wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Earnie Boyd
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 5:50 AM
>
> It is possible actually - I have an app that I compile under mingw and that
> uses libxml2 which only comes pre-compiled as libxml2.lib. As I remember,
> it
> used to be a big problem but the latest version of the linker allows .lib
> files to be linked in simply by specifying them as additional input files
> explicitly (note not using the -l option). My Makefile contains:
>
> ifeq ($(OSTYPE),msys)
> LDFLAGS += /c/MinGW/lib/libxml2.lib
> else
> LDFLAGS += -lxml2
> endif
>
>
>
Awesome. That's exactly what I was looking for. What version of mingw are
you using? I hope that this is working with the release candidate because
grabbing all the unstable packages one by one is a hassle.

I'll have a closer look at the libxml2 sources to find out the MSVC flags
that they're using (at first glance flags seem to be quite normal).

Thanks a lot Earnie!

-- 
Mickaël Mounier