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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libpng-1.0.9-3


soren@wonderstorm.com wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On the topic of libpng built with Cygwin tools, I have the following
> question. It concerns the breakage of `make' when I try to use a
> conditional switch to choose what kind of linking to do, when building the
> application pngcrush (a problematical but important libpng-using
> application that *does not* build OOB as a dynamically-linked exe with
> libpng.dll). In particular I am hoping Chuck Wilson can help (and THANK
> YOU so MUCH for your persistent efforts on such ports as libpng to
> Cygwin, Chuck!) because Chuck seems to know his way around `make'
> very well indeed.
> 

Can't be done.  (Well, you have to hack pngcrush.c pretty heavily -- and
probably have to custom-build a libpng.dll).  The problem is that
pngcrush is not really an "external" program -- it's developed by one of
the main forces in libpng development, and uses non-exported functions
from the library.  This doesn't matter on unix with shared libs (there
are no "hidden" functions) and it doesn't matter with static libs.  But
with windows dll's it makes a difference.

Now, since cygwin-gcc autoexports functions that are declared
__declspec(dllexport) but are not in the .def file -- you *could* make
this work.  However, you'd end up with the same problem we've discussed
in this very thread with "moving" exports.

--Chuck


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> Newsgroups: gnu.utils.help, gnu.gcc.help
> 
> Hello, hope someone can help:
> 
> I have the following Makefile (copied here in full because I have exhausted
> every idea that has occurred to me about why this makefile fails the way it
> does).
> 
> When this is run it fails immediately with a message:
> 
> ------- console dump, watch for wrapping -------
> make: *** No rule to make target `adler32.c', needed by `adler32.o'.  Stop.
> ------- cut here -------------------------------
> 
> The MAKEFILE:
> ------- Makefile text, watch for wrapping ------
> # Sample makefile for pngcrush using gcc and make.
> # Glenn Randers-Pehrson
> # Last modified:  [in-progress] - soren andersen
> #
> # Invoke this makefile from a shell prompt in the usual way; for example:
> #
> #       make -f makefile.gcc
> 
> # macros --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> VPATH =../libpng-1.0.8 /mingw/include . /usr/include
> 
> CC = gcc
> LD = gcc
> RM = rm -vf
> CFLAGS = -I../libpng-1.0.8 -I. -ID:/mingw/include -O -Wall
> # [note that -Wall is a gcc-specific compilation flag ("all warnings on")]
> LDFLAGS =
> O = .o
> E = .exe
> 
> PNGCRUSH = pngcrush
> 
> LIBS = -lm
> LIBPATH = ../libpng-1.0.8
> 
>  ifeq (DLL,$(LINKTYPE))
> OBJS  = $(PNGCRUSH)$(O)
> LIBS  += -lpng.dll
> #  .c$(O): png.h pngconf.h zlib.h pngcrush.h cexcept.h
> #       $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $<
>  else
> PNGCRUSH = pngcrush_static
> OBJS  = adler32$(O) crc32$(O) deflate$(O) gzio$(O) \
>       infblock$(O) infcodes$(O) inffast$(O) inflate$(O) inftrees$(O) \
>       infutil$(O) png$(O) pngerror$(O) pngget$(O) pngmem$(O) \
>       pngpread$(O) pngread$(O) pngrio$(O) pngrtran$(O) pngrutil$(O) \
>       pngset$(O) pngtrans$(O) pngwio$(O) pngwrite$(O) pnggccrd$(O) \
>       pngwtran$(O) pngwutil$(O) trees$(O) zutil$(O)
> vpath %.c ../libpng-1.0.8
> $(OBJS): %.o: %.c
>         $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) -DPNG_STATIC -DZLIB_STATIC -o $@ $<
> LIBS  += -lpng
>  endif
> 
> EXES = $(PNGCRUSH)$(E)
> 
> # dependencies --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> all: $(EXES)
> 
> $(PNGCRUSH)$(E): $(OBJS) $(PNGCRUSH)$(O)
>         $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(OBJS) -L$(LIBPATH) $(LIBS)
> 
> $(PNGCRUSH)$(O): pngcrush.c png.h pngconf.h zlib.h pngcrush.h cexcept.h
> 
> # maintenance ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> clean:
>         $(RM) $(EXES) $(OBJS)
> 
> # Useful for debugging the values of variables during a make.  To use
> # it just call: make DEBUGVARS="var1 var2".  No targets will get
> # executed
> #
> ifdef DEBUGVARS
> eval=$(1)
> $(warning Debugging value of variables:)
> $(foreach var,$(DEBUGVARS),$(warning $(var) = "$(call eval,$$($(var)))"))
> $(error End of debugging)
> endif
> 
> ------- cut here -------------------------------
> 
> My objective is to be able to build either a static-linked version of this exe
> or a Win32-dynamic link lib (DLL) -linked version, from one Makefile. The
> LINKTYPE env var is the switch for that -if defined and eq "DLL" is will tell
> make to link to a dll interface lib, else it will build all the needed static
> objects (if not found up-to-date) and link them in to the exe.
> 
> The code I have already worked for building the dynamically linked version,
> and supposedly worked as it came in the standard distro, to build the static
> executable. I *only* need help with the specified issue (rephrased below),
> thanks.
> 
> Thanks for any help someone can give in explaining why the implicit rule that
> make is suppose to use, that tells it that a dependency ".c" file is NOT a
> *target* needing to be rebuilt, but the starting point for creating ".o"
> files, is being "turned off" somehow when this Makefile is run.
> 
>   regards,
>     Soren Andersen
> 
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