Re: mingw host and def-files

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Roumen,

* Roumen Petrov wrote on Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:58:07PM CEST:
> Env.: mingw host, linux buld, i.e. cross compilation.
> 
> In this environment some of libraries are not ported entirely.
> Possible work around is to def file with imports instead of library.
> If I add def file to the source list sources it is removed in link mode.
> 
> How to add *def file to the list of files in link command ?

You can pass
  -Wc,$DLLNAME.def

to libtool and it will pass $DLLNAME.def through.  See also -Xcompiler
for a similar method that also allows passing through arguments that
contain comma.

Strictly speaking, this is a libtool question (and as such addressed in
its manual).

Cheers,
Ralf