[Mingw-w64-public] i686-w64-mingw32 1.0 includes dlfcn.h but not its library

[Luis Lavena]

Hello,

I'm using mingw-w64 to cross-compile Ruby and other libraries from OSX
to Windows.

Using 4.5.1 prerelease
(mingw-w32-1.0-bin_i686-darwin_20100702.tar.bz2) from automated
builds, I found that dlfcn.h is included in i686-w64-mingw32/include
directory of the package, but there is not libdl.a that complements
it.

Either was a problem on the packaging or a mistake.

A simple test program:

#include <winsock2.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <dlfcn.h>

int main()
{
return 0;
}

using the following compile options:

i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -E conftest.c -o conftest.i

end with exit code 0, but:

i686-w64-mingw32-gcc conftest.c -o conftest -ldl
/Users/luis/mingw/w32/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.5.1/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld:
cannot find -ldl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

So is faulty.

This still exist on newer (non-1.0) releases
(mingw-w32-bin_i686-darwin_20100902.tar.bz2).

Should I report this to the bug tracker or reports from automated
builds are not valid?

Thank you.

[Xiaofan Chen]

Post by Luis Lavena
Hello,
I'm using mingw-w64 to cross-compile Ruby and other libraries from OSX
to Windows.
Using 4.5.1 prerelease
(mingw-w32-1.0-bin_i686-darwin_20100702.tar.bz2) from automated
builds, I found that dlfcn.h is included in i686-w64-mingw32/include
directory of the package, but there is not libdl.a that complements
it.
Either was a problem on the packaging or a mistake.

[Luis Lavena]

Post by Luis Lavena
Hello,
I'm using mingw-w64 to cross-compile Ruby and other libraries from OSX
to Windows.
Using 4.5.1 prerelease
(mingw-w32-1.0-bin_i686-darwin_20100702.tar.bz2) from automated
builds, I found that dlfcn.h is included in i686-w64-mingw32/include
directory of the package, but there is not libdl.a that complements
it.
Either was a problem on the packaging or a mistake.

[Xiaofan Chen]

[Luis Lavena]

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