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Re: libxml2-devel-2.6.20-1: missing static archive


Teun Burgers wrote:
To the libxml2 maintainer:

See also

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00888.html

The libxml2-devel packages contains an import library (libxml2.dll.a),
but no static archive (libxml2.a). Most other packages do, e.g. libpng12-devel. What is the reason for this?

The reason is: I use the flag ' --disable-static'. It lasts half the time to compile only the DLL.

I would like to suggest to add a static archive to allow
building statically linked binaries and for consistency
with other devel packages.

There are cygwin itself, most X libraries, apr / apr-util, aspell, atk, audiofile, glib, gtk, gettext, gmp, gnome, guile, pango and probably some more which don't include static archives.

Do you really need the static archive?


Gerrit



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