Changeset 2868 for box/trunk/docs

Timestamp:

01/03/2011 00:31:31 (15 months ago)

Author:

chris

Message:

Instruct to build PCRE with shared libs disabled, to avoid dependency
on DLL in a directory not in the path.

File:

• box/trunk/docs/api-notes/win32_build_on_cygwin_using_mingw.txt (modified) (1 diff)

box/trunk/docs/api-notes/win32_build_on_cygwin_using_mingw.txt

@@ -69 +69 @@
         export CFLAGS="-mno-cygwin"
         export CXXFLAGS="-mno-cygwin"
-        ./configure --prefix=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32
+        ./configure --prefix=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32 --disable-shared
         make 
         make install
+
+Note: we must disable shared libraries on Windows because otherwise
+libpcreposix.a is built to depend on libpcre.dll, even if you define
+PCRE_STATIC, and since /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin (the location of the DLL)
+is not normally on the PATH, the DLL can't be found, which stops you
+from running any executables.
 
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