freedce/win32 - making progress.

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

okay, i'm getting somewhere, and there's a key part that i would
appreciate some advice about: if there is anyone who knows how to
do cross-compiling of dlls using libtool, mingw32 (in automake
Makefile.am's) where the dlls need to link against _other_ libraries,
i would love to hear from you.

if you know of a better place to ask questions such as these, i would
also appreciate some advice on where i should ask them.

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there are about eight libraries containing a function
rpc__module_init_func() and these need to be LoadLibrary'd and
GetProcAddress'd and called...

... but in endeavouring to create dlls, i am getting mad warnings from
libtool about a) static libraries containing unresolved functions
therefore libtool says it _could_ link against the library you
requested, but only if you made a dynamic version and b) unresolved
symbols for functions in other libraries, and it's all a bit of
a vicious circle and i'd rather not bash my head against a brick
wall for days on this.


if this issue cannot be resolved then there are a number of nasty
options remaining:

1) statically link binaries against the libraries, with hard-coded
module init functions (which is what i'm doing now and i link against
libnaf_ip.la, libcom.la, libprot_ncacn.la, libprot_ncadg.la, the list
goes on and you have to do that for EVERY client AND server program)

2) abandon automake, work out how to manually create dlls.  yes i know
about .def files but libtool appears unconvinced.

neither of these two is attractive options.



anyway: what i have working so far can be found at the freedce-devel
sf.net mailing list archives, and as of today, rpcd (the endpoint mapper
on port 135) works.

and also when i add a NamedPipes transport (ncacn_np) it will
be on \PIPE\epmapper, too.  that'll be a fun job.  no, really!

tomorrow's job is to link the echo_server and test that, and if that
works, try the echo_client too.

if those work, then the free software community will have its own
DCE/RPC reference implementation running on win32.

much damn good may it do, i am sure.

l.

p.s. thank goodness for pthreads-win32.

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