Bug 105112 - windows: libdir variant for static linking
Summary: windows: libdir variant for static linking
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: pkg-config
Classification: Unclassified
Component: src (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
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Assignee: pkg-config
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Reported: 2018-02-15 14:20 UTC by Clemens Buchacher
Modified: 2018-08-25 12:53 UTC (History)
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Description Clemens Buchacher 2018-02-15 14:20:17 UTC
Hi,

I am cross-compiling https://github.com/cliffordwolf/icestorm.git for Windows 10 using mingw-w64 inside WSL (cross-compiling is what upstream has been doing, so I am trying to reuse that work). I already compiled the libftdi library dependency.

Upstream and others (https://rqou.com/jenkins/job/open-fpga-tools/job/icestorm-win64/691/console) seem to be hard-coding the libftdi library path to their install locations. I could be doing the same, but the icestorm Makefile already uses pkg-config, so we could make this work out of the box.

The problem is that libdir in libftdi1.pc points to $PREFIX/bin, rather than the lib directory, because shared libraries (DLLs) are typically installed in the same directory with the executable on Windows (they must be in the PATH or in the same directory with the executable for the dynamic linker to find it). The static library, however, is still installed in $PREFIX/lib.

What would you think about adding an optional alternative libdir, e.g. libdir_static, to indicate the location of static libraries, in case they are different from the location of the dynamic libraries?
Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-25 12:53:20 UTC
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