Re: [Mingw-users] adding my own libraries to mingw

[William S. <wil...@gm...>]

Sorry, just wanted to add:
I say "make" below, but really it is mingw32-make I am using. I have
used doskey to alias "mingw32-make" to "make" to save me typing:
doskey make=mingw32-make $*

Bill

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 5:32 PM, William Simpson
<wil...@gm...> wrote:
> The problem below I have no idea about. I tried my own ugly makefile
> (which I showed you before). It worked, but make seemed confused about
> what directory it was in! It claimed it couldn't find librand.a (to
> move) or rand.o (to delete). So I did those things by hand.
>
> Then I compiled my test program that used my rand library. Before that
> I told you that I edited the specs file as instructed. Worked!
>
> So the two mysteries are
> - those weird messages I got when doing a make of the library with the
> nice makefile
> - the fact that make got confused about what dir it was in when using
> my ugly makefile
>
> Thanks for any help!
> Bill
>
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 5:08 PM, William Simpson
> <wil...@gm...> wrote:
>> OK using the suggested makefile on my rand library, I get:
>>
>> C:\MinGW\local\lib\src\rand>make
>> gcc   rand.o librand.a   -o rand
>> c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/../../../libmingw32.a(main.o):main.c:(.tex
>> t+0xd2): undefined reference to `WinMain@16'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> mingw32-make: *** [rand] Error 1
>>
>> So far as I know, I configured everything correctly when I installed
>> mingw. I compiled hello.c ok.
>> At first I thought it was because I created and modified specs in the
>> way shown in the HOWTO. But I renamed the specs file and the problem
>> remained.
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> ============== makefile below
>> rand: librand.a
>>
>> CC = gcc
>>
>> libdir = c:/mingw/local/lib
>> includedir = c:/mingw/local/include
>>
>> %.o: %.c
>>        $(CC) -c $<
>>
>> rand.o: rand.c rand.h
>>
>> librand.a: rand.o # and any other objects you wish it to include
>>        del $@
>>        ar rcvs $@ $^
>>
>> install:
>>        copy librand.a $(libdir)
>>        copy rand.h $(includedir)
>>
>> clean:
>>        del *.o
>>
>> distclean: clean
>>        del *.a
>>
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