RE: Question about mkoctfile

[Michael Goffioul]

On 3/15/07, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 26-Feb-2007, address@hidden wrote:
>
> | In mkoctfile, any oct file is linked against a bunch of libraries in addition 
> to
> | liboctave, liboctinterp and libcruft: -lz, -lblas, -lfftw, -lhdf5....
> | If the target oct file does not use any symbol of those libs, do they still 
> need
> | to be specified on the link command line? Or is -loctave, -loctinterp and
> | -lcruft enough? (I'm not sure how gcc handle this)
>
> I'm not sure what is correct, but if there is a better way of doing
> this that works on all platforms, or platform-specific ways that we
> can easily determine at configure time, then I'd consider patches.

The fact is that I don't know how it works on other platforms; this
was more or less what I wanted to know. With MSVC, you only need
to linked against the libs from which you actually use symbols.

I was asking because it could have an impact on the files included
and/or installed by the binary package under Windows (MSVC splits
the DLL and the import library, the latter being used when you want
to linked against it). But maybe I should simply package and install
everything.

Michael.