Re: libtool did not search ws2_32.dll

[Roumen Petrov]

Kuang-Chun Cheng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using mingw cross compiler (with GNU autotools) under Linux to build DLL.
> One of the package I build is gnet2-2.0.8 which will link winsock library.
> Everything is OK, the DLL is created under Linux.
>
> When I copy the library to WinXP and use gnet2-2.0.8 to create
> network my app.  The libtool complain that it can't handle -lws2_32
> and show me error message:
>
> *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -lws2_32."
> *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when"
> *** you link to this library.  But I can only do this if you have a"
> *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have"
> *** because I did check the linker path looking for a file starting"
>
> I try to trace what's wrong in libtool ... and found that libtool try to search
> libws2_32.dll under couple paths ... but libtool does not know the
> real DLL is c:\windows\system32\ws2_32.dll !!

cross compiler ?

In cross-environment import library is 
.../<TARGET_ALIAS>/lib/libws2_32.a along with other import libraries.


> If I copy/rename c:\windows\system32\ws2_32.dll to c:\mingw\bin\libws2_32.dll
> then everything work OK.
>
> Is this expected ? or a libtool bug ?

Not sure what is cause of issue. The process of you copy is not clear.
"... and use gnet2-2.0.8 to create ... ...... Warning: linker path does 
not have real file for library -lws2_32 ...." Look like issue with 
native build and missing installation of w32api dev. package.

> Thanks
> KC

Roumen