Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] MXE: How to build a self-sufficient DLL that statically includes other libraries?

[JohnD]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Geier [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 10:35 AM
> To: John Donoghue
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] MXE: How to build a self-sufficient DLL 
> that
> statically includes other libraries?
> 
> Hi John.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:37 AM, John Donoghue wrote:
> > Wouldnt using tools/make-shared-from-static to create shared libs work?
> 
> Thanks for the hint!
> To be honest, I wasn't aware of the tools/ directory at all!
> 
> Is there any documentation for how to use this?
> 
> I came that far:
> 
> $ tools/make-shared-from-static --ar ar --ld ld usr/x86_64-w64-
> mingw32.static/lib/libsndfile.a -lFLAC
> 
> This leads to a lot of linker errors, among others regarding lrint, strlen, 
> memset,
> calloc ...
> 
> What other options am I supposed to use?
> 
> cheers,
> Matthias

Take a look at the mxe main Makefile which defines a variable 
MAKE_SHARED_FROM_STATIC
Ar, ld etc will need to be the cross compiled target versions, there also 
options for the lib and bin path