Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 23:44:29 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <127216591702.20020511234429@familiehaase.de> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin Python with a static Python library? In-Reply-To: <20020508115001.GA1700@tishler.net> References: <20020508115001.GA1700@tishler.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hallo Jason, Am Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2002 um 13:50 schriebst du: > There have been some recent posts on python-list@ regarding whether > or not Cygwin Python should be built with a shared (i.e., DLL) Python > library or a static one. Note that Cygwin Python currently uses a DLL > library like the Win32 one. > Does anyone have compelling reasons why Cygwin Python needs a static > library? If so, then I will consider submitting a patch to Python CVS > to enable this for Cygwin. Unfortunately, it will be difficult to fit > this cleanly into the Python Unix build infrastructure due to the extra > steps required to build an executable that exports symbols with the > current Cygwin binutils. Perl builds a static version of libperl for bootstrapping, but it gets not installed. I think that it is not needed (well I have no idea for what I should use it). > See attached for more details, if interested. That is interesting. miniperl is not able to load dynamic modules. = Can't load module IO, dynamic loading not available in this perl. (You may need to build a new perl executable which either supports dynamic loading or has the IO module statically linked into it.) = Now I think: What is the difference, to link against a .dll which exports the symbols or link against an executable which exports the symbols...? Anyway, who wants to get a static libperl just needs to rebuild perl and there it is. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/