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Re: libtoolized some older libs
On Sep 28 19:14, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >I made several /usr/lib/.la file for libs which could be loaded shared
> >(at run-time) for myself to enable shared and smaller modules for the
> >bigger stuff I'm working on. php, clamav, postgresql, ...
>
> Whether a .la file exists or not has NO bearing on whether the library
> can be loaded dynamically (either implicitly by the windows runtime
> loader, or explicitly via dlopen()/LoadLibrary()/etc).
>
> The .dll.a & .dll files for these packages are fine. There is nothing
> wrong with them.
>
> Except they weren't produced by libtool. BFD.
Erm, why? OpenSSL doesn't use libtool for producing shared libs, even
on any other platform. What's the deal?
Corinna
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