Re: Building shared libs (DLL) under Cygwin (1.8.4)

[Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>]

"Aaron Turner" <synfinatic@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm trying to rebuild Guile 1.8.4 under Cygwin (latest stable) because
> the Cygwin packages seem to have some serious problems (I've been told
> it was built with the wrong version of gcc).  Everything seems ok
> (configure && make report no errors), but when it's all said and done,
> all I get is a static library.   This causes problems because
> 'guile-config link' returns the appropriate flags to link dynamically
> and so I can't build other packages dependent on Guile (like GNU
> Autogen).
>
> I've attached the config.log, but as far as I can tell, there's no
> indication why this is happening... it even says that shared library
> will be built.  The libguile.la file also confirms that only a static
> library was built.
>
> Any suggestions or hints would be much appreciated!  Thanks!

I would suggest working with the Cygwin people on this.  They are more
likely to be familiar with this kind of issue (which probably comes
from how the autotools work on Cygwin), and if there's a problem with
the current Guile in Cygwin, it would be much better to fix that for
all Cygwin users.

(FWIW, when I last updated a couple of weeks ago, the Cygwin Guile
version was 1.8.2.  I've been using that successfully and haven't seen
any critical problems.  I did see a problem with open-input-pipe
hanging, but worked around that by writing to a temporary file instead
and then re-reading from that file.)

Regards,
      Neil