Stefan, thanks for your clear explanation. The only this I don't fully understand is, if I need to build a static library (for boost library), do I have to use the OpenTTD patch, or can I use yours?
One extra thing, as I read in a previous post, this patch works with the .zip icu file, and the OpenTTD was thinked to work with the tgz, I'm ok?
By the way, thanks you and Richards for this great contribution!
Sure, no problem. The OpenTTD patch wasn't very generic, so I needed to change a few things. First off, the OpenTTD patch is made to strictly create a static library, we needed a shared one. Most of the changes I made were to make the patch more generic (setting LIBPREFIX=lib, etc). As the the lib/dll thing, the way I understand it, the .lib file type is used for static libraries on Windows (same as .a on UNIX).
Does that explain it?
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Jose Mondefo
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Hi Stefan and Richard,
I was looking for compiling icu in mingw32 for another project (more precisely for compiling then boost for using in freeling project), and found your patch, and the original patch at openttld. I see that your patch is a kind of improvement over that (more complete), but I see that there are one difference in the mh-mingw I don't understand very well.
More precisely in the opentld patch there are a rename of the SO from dll to lib mention something about not working if --disable-shared, and some extra differences about the stubnames, both of theme not applied in your patch. Could you explain me what this difference represent?
Thanks in advance!
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