Re: Building a Windows binary

[Ulrich Klauer <ulrich@chirlu.de>]

Chris Bagwell <chris@cnpbagwell.com>:

> Sounds promising solution.  I especially like how it downloads everything
> so we can move between build computers much faster.

Yes, although "fast" is relative; it takes its time to build  
everything from scratch, especially GCC (about twenty minutes for me;  
a faster computer might help). But this can run in the background, of  
course.

> Can you tell MXE to build and prefer static libraries so that we can ship a
> minimal of DLL's?  Its not a show stopper if we don't but it does reduce
> some run-time issues.

Yes, it already builds static-only libraries by default. My test  
builds don't require any DLLs at all (not even zlib), except for those  
that have --enable-dl-XXX for legal reasons. (The newest is at  
http://www.chirlu.de/temp/sox-win32-experimental/, by the way; it is  
from relatively-current git master though, not from 14.4.0.)

I also found out recently that libtool recognizes an option  
"-all-static" when linking executables. It will then statically link  
everything, even indirect dependencies, and even when dynamic  
libraries are also present. I think I will make a configuration option  
for that and remove the workarounds.

Ulrich


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