[Xcb] Native win32 port -xcb dll - done :)

[Jeetu Golani]

Hi all,

Thanks to Vincent I've been able to form a DLL of xcb with my win32 code in 
it. I still need to test and see if this works however the steps I followed 
to get the build mechanism to generate the dll are as follows:

- Compiled the DLL version of libXau: 
 ./autogen.sh --hosts=i586-mingw32msvc
make
make install

- Compiled and installed the pthread-win32 library.

- Made changes as suggested by Vincent - 

>1) in configure.ac, before AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, add AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL

>2) add, in src/Makefile.am, the value -no-undefined to *_LDFLAGS:

>libxcb_la_LDFLAGS = -no-undefined -version-info 1:0:0

- set the environment variable LIBS to include the ws2_32 and pthreadGC2 
library - export LIBS = -lws2_32 -lpthreadGC2

- Configured and built using - 
./autogen.sh --host=i586-mingw32msvc
make

As I said I haven't tested the resulting dll......but well hope it works :)

Bye for now


On Monday 28 Apr 2008, you wrote:
> > Sorry I haven't tried your suggestion yet. XCB also depends on
> > libXau.....would the settings you suggested automatically include
> > libXau too or does that require something extra. Sorry am not that
> > great with the build mechanism.
>
> my suggestions were only to create the dll on windows, that's all.
>
> regards
>
> Vincent