[Xvid-devel] About library objects name in Cygwin/MinGW

[Motofumi Oka]

I want to attach "lib" to STATIC_LIB also in mingw.
It may not be required as Reini said.
However, it already serves as custom. I don't know except xvid what does not
attach ”lib"prefix to static library.
When a cross-platform project uses GCC, do they set up LDFLAG in
consideration of a library name being different only in mingw?
Probably, they are unwilling to do it.
Therefore, if there is no reason which must not attach "lib", I will want
you to attach it.

Regards,
Motofumi

2011/9/16 Michael Militzer <michael at xvid.org>

> Hm, what would be a proper solution then? Something like this?
>
> http://pastebin.com/bva9i8CH
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
>
> Quoting Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray.at>:
>
> > 2011/9/15 Motofumi Oka <chikuzen.mo at gmail.com>:
> >> Currently, library name of xvidcore in cygwin/mingw is defined by
> >> configure.in as follows.
> >>
> >>     [[cC]][[yY]][[gG]][[wW]][[iI]][[nN]]*|mingw32*|mks*)
> >>    AC_MSG_RESULT([ok])
> >>    STATIC_LIB="xvidcore.\$(STATIC_EXTENSION)"
> >>    SHARED_LIB="xvidcore.\$(SHARED_EXTENSION)"
> >>
> >> For this reason, when using xvidcore as an external library of other
> >> projects(ffmpeg, mencoder, etc...), I always have to rename/copy/simlink
> >> xvidcore(.dll).a to libxvidcore(.dll).a.
> >>
> >> So, what is the reason the library name differs from the case of other
> >> environment?
> >> I know nothing about mks.
> >> however, I think that it is appropriate to attach "lib" to a library
> name
> >> when target_os=cygwin/mingw.
> >
> > On cygwin the import lib should be named libxvidcore.dll.a,
> > the shared lib cygxvidcore.dll and the static lib xvidcore.a
> > On mingw the shared libxvidcore.dll
> >
> > The lib prefix is only needed for the import lib and this pulls in the
> > right dll (cygwin or mingw)
> > which is the preferred naming method.
> > --
> > Reini Urban
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