[PD] pd.lib

[Martin Peach]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> On Sep 24, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Martin Peach wrote:
> 
>> brandt at subnet.at wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> can anybody help me to find pd.lib?
>>
>> It's in the pd/bin folder of Miller's Windows versions.
>>
>> It would be nice if it (or at least a list of exported symbols) was 
>> included in the autobuilds for Windows but it isn't, I guess because 
>> MinGW and Cygwin don't require it for linking.
> 
> 
> Feel free to make this change directly in the Pd-extended branch.  I 
> think it would just be a matter of editing makefile.mingw to make it 
> generate the files you want, then adding those files to the 
> packages/win32_inno/pd-inno.iss.in so that they are included in the 
> installer.

OK I just added code to create a pddll.def file. This can then be used 
to make a pd.lib in MSVC, so externals for pd-extended may be built 
using MSVC. (as long as they don't pass file handles across the dll 
boundary -- an issue involving different c runtimes having different 
FILE structs)
(Other possibilities: Perhaps libpd.a can be used directly just by 
renaming it pd.lib (but it is currently not installed into pd/bin), or 
nm can be used to extract the symbols from pd.dll (but this must be done 
before it is stripped.))

packages/win32_inno/pd-inno.iss.in already copies everything in pd/bin 
to pd/bin so no change seems needed there.

I notice there is already a pdtcl.def file being created using 
pdtcl.dll, but it doesn't seem to be used or installed.

I'll check tomorrow's build to see if it worked.

Martin