[dev-serveez] Re: libtool 1.5 used in serveez package

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 25 May 2003, stefan wrote:

> This message indicates that libtool is not able/does not want to link the
> static archive libiberty.a to the libserveez.dll.  This worked perfectly
> with 1.4.2.  When looking at the magic_regex_expr ('file_magic ^x86
> archive import|^x86 DLL') in libtool.m4 one can get the impression that
> windows dlls are now allowed to be linked against other dlls only.  Static
> archives are not allowed anymore.  Has this some reason?

It was a bug to allow Windows DLLs to link against static libraries
other than those delivered with the compiler.  1.5 fixes this bug.

The reason why it is a bad idea to link DLLs with the static library
is that the symbols from the static library are auto-imported similar
to those intended to be exposed by the DLL. This can cause problems if
two DLLs a program depends on link against the same static library,
particularly if the static libraries are different versions.  Either
there are duplicate symbols, or the result is ambigious.

Bob
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