[Patches] [ python-Patches-709178 ] remove -static option from cygwinccompiler

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Patches item #709178, was opened at 2003-03-24 17:55
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Category: Distutils and setup.py
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: John Kabir Luebs (jkluebs)
Assigned to: Jason Tishler (jlt63)
Summary: remove -static option from cygwinccompiler

Initial Comment:
Currently, the cygwinccompiler.py compiler handling in
distutils is invoking the cygwin and mingw compilers
with the -static option. 

Logically, this means that the linker should choose to
link to static libraries instead of shared/dynamically
linked libraries.

Current win32 binutils expect import libraries to have
a .dll.a suffix and static libraries to have .a suffix.
If -static is passed, it will skip the .dll.a
libraries. This is pain if one has a tree with both
static and dynamic libraries using this naming
convention, and wish to use the dynamic libraries.

The -static option being passed in distutils is to get
around a bug in old versions of binutils where it would
get confused when it found the DLLs themselves.

The decision to use static or shared libraries is site
or package specific, and should be left to the setup
script or to command line options.

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>Comment By: Jason Tishler (jlt63)
Date: 2003-03-28 09:41

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Note that I only have minimal experience building
Win32 extensions modules...

This patch works "fine" with my *very* limited testing.
Specifically, I successfully rebuilt the Win32 readline
module with it applied.

BTW, this area of Distutils probably should be revisited
to bring it up to date. For example, the "-mdll --entry
_DllMain@12" options could be replaced by "-shared".

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2003-03-27 15:03

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Jason, can you take a look? If not, please unassign it.

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