Re: [Tinycc-devel] Sugggestion: Add lib type *.c for tcc_add_library() on windows ('-l' option parse)

[grischka]

address@hidden wrote:

> "w32api" is really useful, but NOT convenient for TCC to build the libs.

Try to write the documentation for the behavior of the patch below
and then we can ask people what is more convenient:
- to read and understand that documentation or
- to type one more filename on the tcc command-line

-- gr

> ---------------- whole tcc_add_library() ----------------------
> /* the library name is the same as the argument of the '-l' option */
> LIBTCCAPI int tcc_add_library(TCCState *s, const char *libraryname)
> {
> #ifdef TCC_TARGET_PE
>     const char *libs[] = { "%s/%s.def", "%s/lib%s.def", "%s/%s.dll", "%s/lib%s.dll", 
> "%s/lib%s.a", "%s/%s.c", NULL };
>     const char **pp = s->static_link ? libs + 4 : libs;
> /*+*/    const char *filename;
> #else
>     const char *libs[] = { "%s/lib%s.so", "%s/lib%s.a", NULL };
>     const char **pp = s->static_link ? libs + 1 : libs;
> #endif
>     while (*pp) {
>         if (0 == tcc_add_library_internal(s, *pp,
> /*+*/            libraryname, 0, s->library_paths, s->nb_library_paths)) {
> /*+*/#ifdef TCC_TARGET_PE
> /*+*/            /* extra search for c file together with def file if there is 
> no dll */
> /*+*/            if (pp < libs + 2) {
> /*+*/                filename = tcc_strdup(s->target_deps[s->nb_target_deps - 
> 1]);
> /*+*/                strcpy(tcc_fileextension(filename), ".dll");
> /*+*/                if (tcc_open(s, filename) < 0) {
> /*+*/                    strcpy(tcc_fileextension(filename), ".c");
> /*+*/                    tcc_add_file_internal(s, filename, 0);
> /*+*/                } else
> /*+*/                    tcc_close();
> /*+*/            }
> /*+*/#endif
>             return 0;
> /*+*/        }
>         ++pp;
>     }
>     return -1;
> }
> ---------------- replace all "/*+*/" to "" ------------------