[Bug 502554] Review Request: mingw32-boost - MinGW Windows Boost C++ library

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--- Comment #7 from Thomas Sailer <t.sailer at alumni.ethz.ch>  2009-05-27 07:36:25 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)

> It looks like the native 'ar' is used (/usr/bin/ar) instead of
> i686-pc-mingw32-ar. This might need some further investigation.

I thought too that ar was just a simple archiver. But I fixed this anyway.

> Another issue I noticed in the .spec file is this:
>  if a2dll libboost_thread-mt.lib libboost_thread-mt "-lpthreadGC2"; then
> As of mingw32-pthreads-2.8.0-8{.fc11,.fc12} it isn't necessary to use
> '-lpthreadGC2' anymore. It should be sufficient to use just '-lpthread' here.

I've seen you made the change too, but it seems it hasn't propagated yet to my
mirror. Anyway, I would like to keep it that way for some time until your
change has fully propagated...

> For the link errors in the testsuite libraries. I might have found out a way to
> get it operational as shared libraries. Would it be possible to add a main()
> function to those testsuite libraries which looks something like this:

Sure, if you write your own dynamic linker :)

Seriously though, this is quite a lot of work to implement, I won't have time
to do this in the next couple of weeks. If someone else wants to give it a try,
be my guest.

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