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Re: libreadline.dll.a missing functions.
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: libreadline.dll.a missing functions.
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:32:19 -0500
- References: <3A661B21.AA1A4875@yahoo.com>
Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> I was testing configurations of bash-2.04 and decided to try the
> cygreadline.dll. After ensuring that the make wasn't going to be using
> bashes included lib/readline and changing the -lreadline to
> -lreadline.dll I receive notice that some of the functions aren't
> defined. One such is _rl_set_screen_size. I find it in the static
> version but not the /bin/cygreadline.dll nor it's accompanying import
> library.
I'll check into this, but note that you shouldn't have to specify
"-lreadline.dll". The current ld will automatically search for
"libfoo.dll.a" *before* "libfoo.a" when you specify "-lfoo". To
*prevent* this behavior, you must tell it "-Bstatic" or tell gcc
"-static" when linking.
--Chuck