Relinking on MinGW (Was: [jamboost] [bbv2] install-type SHARED_LIB warning)

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-08 04:24:42

On Friday 02 September 2005 08:19, Daniel Schlyder wrote:
> Hi Volodya,
>
> > 1. Tell me what system is this. Is this NT, or (as I suspect)
> > cygwin/mingw.
>
> NT. (Compiler is MinGW, but I'm using standard Windows shell, not MSYS.
> Sorry for not mentioning this.)
>
> > 2. Go to E:/libs/boost/tools/build/v2/tools\stage.jam:359
> > and add
> > ECHO "NT!" ;
> > and
> > ECHO "Not NT!" ;
> > to both branches of the
> >
> > if [ $(property-set).get <os> ] = NT
> >
> > conditional.
>
> "Not NT!" is printed.

Ah.. so you've built bjam with mingw compiler, so it things the OS is mingw, 
or something like that.

I wonder why we relink the libraries on that platform? Does mingw support 
either dynamic libraries soname, or hardcoding of dynamic library search path 
in the library?

If not, we don't need any relinking.

- Volodya

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