RE: FW: compiling gtk-engines under mingw

["Karl Reis" <kreight1-msu yahoo com>]

Thank you for suggesting that.  I finally got it to compile after realizing
that I was missing the 'dlltool' utility found under the 'binutils' package
of mingw.

This was key to having libtool create the DLLs.  Otherwise it simply was
creating archived library packages.

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: control H [mailto:control h gmail com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 0924 AM
> To: Karl Reis
> Cc: gtk-app-devel
> Subject: Re: FW: compiling gtk-engines under mingw
>
> > Has anyone been able to successfully compile and create libmist.dll,
> > libclearlooks.dll under windows?
>
> Yes I have done that a year ago or so, I compiled and used clearlooks
> under Windows using mingw.
>
> > Libtool generates warnings saying that the shared libraries for gtk,
> pango,
> > etc.. are not found.  Indeed, there are only static libraries.
>
> True, libtool fails. Since usually I compile "by hand" I never use
> libtool, and therefore I didn't bother finding out why libtool failed.
> Instead, I manually adjusted the failed compile/link command. As far
> as I remember I just did something like gcc <all object files> -o
> libclearlooks.dll or something like that. If you really want to know
> what exact command I used I can compile (find out) it again.