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static runtime didn't work

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Jay Berkenbilt 2009-10-11 03:22:54 +00:00
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@ -28,14 +28,17 @@ From your MSYS prompt, run
./configure --disable-test-compare-images --enable-build-external-libs --with-buildrules=mingw
make
When done, you should copy the gcc runtime dll into the libqpdf/build
When done, you should copy the gcc runtime DLL into the libqpdf/build
directory. You can find the path to it by running
objdump -p qpdf/build/qpdf.exe | grep DLL
type -P libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
replacing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll with whatever gcc DLL is shown, if
different.
different. For an unknown reason, building with -static-libgcc
results in executables that fail their test suites. I'm guessing this
has to do with static data being duplicated between the DLL and the
executable, but I don't really know.
From your cygwin prompt, add the absolute path to the libqpdf/build
directory to your PATH. Make sure you can run the qpdf command by
@ -92,3 +95,6 @@ A release version of qpdf is built by default. You will probably have
to edit msvc.mk to change /MD to /MDd to build a debugging version.
It has also been attempted to build qpdf with /MT, but it does not
pass its test suite in this configuration. I have not investigated.
Perhaps this is the same issue as with -static-libgcc with mingw. In
both cases, statically linking the runtime results in non-working
executables/DLL.