<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - CMake: patches for mingw build" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103157#c8">Comment # 8</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - CMake: patches for mingw build" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103157">bug 103157</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:manisandro@gmail.com" title="Sandro Mani <manisandro@gmail.com>"> Sandro Mani</a> <pre>I've looked around a bit and can't really find much, except that besides autotools also qmake appears to do it by default, as I gather from [1]. As an experiment, I looked at all dlls of all Fedora mingw packages: $ dnf provides '/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/*.dll' | grep Filename | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq > dlls $ cat dlls | wc -l 714 $ cat dlls | grep -Ev '[0-9].dll' | grep -v "^Qt5" | wc -l 343 So out of 714 dlls, 343 have no versioning. A strong argument for versioning IMO is that from a packaging point of view it enforces versioned dependencies between packages, i.e.: $ rpm -q --requires mingw64-gdal mingw64(iconv.dll) mingw64(kernel32.dll) mingw64(libcfitsio-3.dll) mingw64(libcurl-4.dll) mingw64(libexpat-1.dll) mingw64(libfreexl-1.dll) mingw64(libgcc_s_seh-1.dll) mingw64(libgeos_c-1.dll) mingw64(libgeotiff-2.dll) mingw64(libgif-7.dll) mingw64(libgrib2c.dll) mingw64(libgta-0.dll) mingw64(libjasper-4.dll) mingw64(libjpeg-62.dll) mingw64(libkmlbase.dll) mingw64(libkmldom.dll) mingw64(libkmlengine.dll) mingw64(libpcre-1.dll) mingw64(libpng16-16.dll) mingw64(libpoppler-71.dll) mingw64(libpq.dll) mingw64(libproj-12.dll) mingw64(libspatialite-4.dll) mingw64(libsqlite3-0.dll) mingw64(libstdc++-6.dll) mingw64(libtiff-5.dll) mingw64(libwebp-7.dll) mingw64(libxerces-c-3-1.dll) mingw64(libxml2-2.dll) mingw64(msvcrt.dll) mingw64(odbc32.dll) mingw64(odbccp32.dll) mingw64(psapi.dll) mingw64(user32.dll) mingw64(ws2_32.dll) mingw64(zlib1.dll) [1] <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/404774/why-library-name-gets-an-additional-0-in-its-name">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/404774/why-library-name-gets-an-additional-0-in-its-name</a></pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>