From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: FYI: WIP patch to build GDB with Python on MinGW
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Pg9za-0003mx-O6@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110121011433.GA2440@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:14:33 -0500)
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:14:33 -0500
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> b. the python library in the <root>/Lib directory
I think it's in <root>/libs, actually. What's in <root>/Lib is the
set of *.py Python library modules.
> and is named libpython27.a (not '.' in the version number,
> unlike on Unix where it's libpython2.7.a). Note that despite
> the .a filename extension, it's NOT an archive (it sorta points
> to the DLL, so at the end GDB is linked against the DLL which
> is in the <root> directory).
I think libpython27.a _is_ an archive (try "ar tv" on it). I believe
this is a so-called "import library" used to link programs against the
corresponding DLL.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-21 5:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-21 5:57 Joel Brobecker
2011-01-21 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-01-21 16:24 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-01-28 11:21 ` Tom Tromey
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