Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] libcacard: add libcacard.la target

[Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 02:07:55PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 05/16/2011 02:06 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >>Usually programs that are fully autoconf-iscated will ship a subset of
> >>libtool sources in the tarball, build a custom version at configure
> >>time, and invoke it from the Makefile via ./libtool. This has the
> >>advantage that only the maintainer needs to have libtool installed. OTOH
> >>we do not use Autoconf and I think this contributes to 99% of the bad
> >>name for Autoconf, so it's not something we want.
> >
> >Another option would be to not use autoconf at all.
>                                      ^^^^^^^^
> 
> You probably mean libtool?
> 
> >Building ELF shared
> >libs isn't that difficuilt these days. Question is whenever there is any
> >non-ELF platform we care about (Windows maybe?).
> 
> ... and Darwin?
> 

For linux all that is needed is to recompile all required sources with -fPIC (doesn't
make sense to force that on the objects linked to the rest of qemu), and link them with
gcc -shared. Does that work on Darwin? on Windows (mingw / cygwin)?

> Paolo
>