[PD] Windows/MinGW DLL dependencies. Was: cyclone/maxlib-maintenance-(w32)

[Fred Jan Kraan]

Hi Lucas,

> Hi Fred,
>
> First, Did you recompiled [coll] with changes from the previous pkg?

Yes, I did recompile the package because I wanted the copying of the 
DLLs being part of the Makefile (while executing 'make install'). And 
there were some minor changes, but not enough to build for all 
platforms, IMHO. The coll sources are unchanged.

So far I found the problem is not caused by a newer version of the build 
system; an older version also produces the dependency on libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll.
Another possibility is that it is caused by an upgrade of MinGW/MSys. I 
hope to have some time soon to check this out.

It would be nice if the build system could report these dependencies or 
even take care of them. But this will not be realized in the short term.

Greetings,

Fred Jan
>
> Attached image of previous and actual [coll] analyzed with
> http://www.dependencywalker.com/ <http://www.dependencywalker.com/ >
>
>
> If you did not recompiled with changes I have “troubles” and I'm just
> looking for them.
>
>     /> Not really. For proper testing you need a Windows machine that
>     has no /
>
>     /> MinGW development kit installed, or at least not in the current
>     PATH. /
>
>     /> Usually when a dll is missing the system shows a popup window
>     stating /
>
>     /> the name of the dll. Here this often doesn't happen. It did once,
>     so I /
>
>     /> knew the name of the dll. /
>
>
> Yes, I did my tests on a relatively clean machine (win 8.1) with a patch
> that open every help.pd in the pkg, there I get popups of missing.dll,
> place them and re-tested the pkg again, closing and reopening pd for
> each pkg test (.dlls remain loaded if not closing pd).
>
> This type of test can not be done in win10, this Os does not popup
> missing .dll and it does not report it in the “event viewer” at least
> not for Pd.
>
> Other few pkgs were tested only with DependancyWalker, i.e iemmatrix.
>
>
> Please don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that “libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll” is
> not needed, I want to know why I have not detected it in the previous
> pkg, and transfer this possible “problem” to other pkgs.
>
> Again, did you recompile [coll]?
>
>
> Salutti,
> Lucarda.
>
>
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