| Subject: | creating .dlls does not create corresponding .a file |
Hello,
The problem I'm observing with vanilla/strawberry perl is that when gcc
is creating a .dll file, the corresponding .a file is not created, which
is needed for consequent linking with the .dll file. I know that mingw
can link programs to a dll without using an intermediate .a file,
however this does not work and crashes gcc and/or ld if tried. Also,
I've noticed that ExtUtils::MakeMaker uses dlltool to create the
required .lib/.a files when building perl modules, which solves the
problem for modules that use ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
I have a proposition that I guess will be more portable and will cover
all modules. I propose to change $Config{link} to a new script called
ld2 or perlld (like cygwin does) that actually would call dlltool. The
immediate benefit would be that modules that don't use
ExtUtils::MakeMaker will not need extra information about dlltool, as it
is now.