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Re: libxml2-devel-2.6.20-1: missing static archive
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Teun Burgers <a dot rburgers at quicknet dot nl>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:25:59 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: libxml2-devel-2.6.20-1: missing static archive
- References: <42D55287.6030604@quicknet.nl>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Teun Burgers wrote:
> To the libxml2 maintainer:
>
> See also
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00888.html
>
> The libxml2-devel packages contains an import library (libxml2.dll.a),
> but no static archive (libxml2.a). Most other packages do, e.g.
> libpng12-devel. What is the reason for this?
>
> I would like to suggest to add a static archive to allow
> building statically linked binaries and for consistency
> with other devel packages.
Shouldn't gcc automatically pick up the .dll.a file? Not having a .a
simply means you can't have an executable that's statically linked with
the library.
Igor
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