• =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs_Marques?= (9/9) Mar 05 2007 Hello,
• Mike Johnson (5/19) Mar 05 2007 Just a guess, but I imagine they're using gcc on Windows, maybe mingw.
• tomD (35/49) Mar 05 2007 Try to make a DLL out of the lib, run implib on it and mostly

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs_Marques?= <luismarques+spam gmail.com> writes:

Hello,

I want to use readline, and at the moment my codebase only compiles on 
windows, so I searched for a windows package of readline and found:

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/readline.htm

I am unable to link with it though.
I have tried to use coffimplib, but it tells me that the readline.lib 
file is not a supported library.

Suggestions, please?

Luís

Mike Johnson <mrjohnson miketec.org> writes:

Just a guess, but I imagine they're using gcc on Windows, maybe mingw. 
You don't want your library and D to use different C runtimes... bad 
things happen.

Best bet is to probably compile readline yourself...

Luís Marques wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I want to use readline, and at the moment my codebase only compiles on 
 windows, so I searched for a windows package of readline and found:
 
 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/readline.htm
 
 I am unable to link with it though.
 I have tried to use coffimplib, but it tells me that the readline.lib 
 file is not a supported library.
 
 Suggestions, please?
 
 Luís

tomD <t_demmer spam.web.de> writes:

Luís Marques Wrote:

 Hello,
 
 I want to use readline, and at the moment my codebase only compiles on 
 windows, so I searched for a windows package of readline and found:
 
 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/readline.htm
 
 I am unable to link with it though.
 I have tried to use coffimplib, but it tells me that the readline.lib 
 file is not a supported library.
 
 Suggestions, please?
 
 Luís

Try to make a DLL out of the lib, run implib on it and mostly
you are done. Try building libreadline with ./configure --lots-of-switches
--enable-shared
This should let you end wih the .dll. Otherwise try something like this:

GCC=gcc -mno-cygwin
cblas.dll: $(LIBCBLAS)
        mkdir -p obj
        (cd obj; ar x ../$(LIBCBLAS); \
        $(GCC) -shared -o ../cblas.dll *.o \
        -Wl,--output-def=../cblas.def \
        -Wl,--export-all-symbols \
        -Wl,--enable-auto-import \
        -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base \
        -Wl,--compat-implib \
        -Wl,--add-stdcall-alias \
        -Wl,--enable-stdcall-fixup \
        )
        rm -rf obj
gsl.dll: $(LIBGSL) cblas.dll
        mkdir -p obj
        (cd obj; ar x ../$(LIBGSL); \
        $(GCC) -shared -o ../gsl.dll *.o ../cblas.dll \
        -Wl,--output-def=../gsl.def \
        -Wl,--export-all-symbols \
        -Wl,--enable-auto-import \
        -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base \
        -Wl,--compat-implib \
        -Wl,--add-stdcall-alias \
        -Wl,--enable-stdcall-fixup \
        )
        rm -rf obj


I did that for gsl-1.9, there was some tweaking required
in the build process, otherwise it worked fine.

Ciao
Tom