[Zlib-devel] [PATCH] mingw zlib import library name

[Enrico Weigelt]

* John Bowler <jbowler at frontiernet.net> schrieb:

> >Is this an Gentoo-specific issue or generic ?
> 
> Generic, quite apart from Kalev Lember's observation that the 
> same thing is done on Fedora, it is a general convention that
> the package provider, not the package user, chooses whether 
> a package library is provided as a DLL or statically.

hmm, so should we merge this change ?

BTW: the decision whether to link dynamic or static should IMHO
be done when building the importing package - the lib itself
should be provided in both variants.

> I don't know of another package where the static and dynamic 
> libraries are built under two distinct names.

ACK. That's what toolchain options like -static are for.

> Actually... I go further.  I don't know *any* package, including 
> zlib, where this is done - I just took a look at my own mingw 
> build system and I see *I* had to install zlib as libz.dll.a 
> while testing libpng (otherwise it simply didn't work - libpng 
> doesn't know anything about -lzdll).

ACK. One thing we *could* do is providing to .pc files, one for
dynamic and one for static - so importing packages can make
this decision on the pkg-config query.


cu
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