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Hello fellow Gentoo devs! |
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As some of you may already know, in Prefix we are able to build native |
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Win32 binaries using the Visual Studio toolchain, nowadays driven by |
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Prefix on Cygwin as the build environment, using sys-devel/parity to |
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have a gcc like commandline interface for cl.exe, link.exe and others. |
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For example, in sys-libs/zlib the Makefile for Linux does work without |
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modification to create the native Win32 library, even if the library |
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file name does not match the Win32 library naming scheme. |
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On the other hand, one would expect libtool to create libraries having |
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proper Win32 naming scheme. |
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Fortunately, parity does provide libtool patches already[1], but because |
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parity itself is not widely recognized yet, they are unlikely to be |
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accepted upstream right now. Beyond that, some of the unrelated but |
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required patches are submitted upstream, but without response so far. |
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As this native Win32 support is considered highly experimental still, I |
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would like to apply the libtool patches for parity via elibtoolize only, |
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without applying them in sys-devel/libtool itself yet. |
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WDYT? |
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[1] https://github.com/mduft/parity/tree/master/parity.patches |
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Thanks! |
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/haubi/ |
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