Re: Building as a DLL on Windows

Well, I finally got the time to look at CMake. Seems like a pretty
excellent tool, really. We could probably use better documentation for it
in the context of freetds, though.I finally figured out where it build the
DLL's and what they are named, so I think it is all good...

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]> wrote:

> Are you sure is not something related to dependency?
>
> The problem of nmakefile is that is lack lot of stuff. Is not able to
> detect additional libraries (openssl, iconv, gnutls and so on). It
> does not take version from same sources (configure) so it has to be
> manually changed every time. It does not compile all full package
> (tests). It does not generate files like versions scripts (for
> instance resource versioning for dlls). It does not generate files
> from git sources. To add all these feature is quite hard and is mainly
> a duplication effort. Actually even cmake+autoconf is a bit a
> duplication but first serve very much fine Windows while second is
> better for *nixes.
>
> Frediano
>
>
> 2015-06-29 19:01 GMT+01:00 A. Craig West <[email protected]>:
> > I tend to agree, it is pretty much guaranteed to be a compiler bug, but
> > fixing compilers is outside the scope of my current project :-)
> > I find that the first time I build after a clean, it fails, and if I
> build
> > again it succeeds. I'm not sure if this is actually an error, as it is
> > possible there is a broken object file produced from the failed build
> that
> > satisfies the time stamps...
> > I will have to look into the cmake option, my nmakefile is working quite
> > well, though.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 2015-06-29 0:42 GMT+01:00 A. Craig West <[email protected]>:
> >> > I discovered that I require freetds to be buildable as a DLL file
> under
> >> > Windows, so I have modified the Nmakefile to add some new build
> targets
> >> and
> >> > directories. After I have tested it a bit, I will port my changes up
> to
> >> > head.
> >>
> >> We are removing nmake support moving to cmake.
> >>
> >> > I am also getting a fault in the compiler on one of the files, but
> have
> >> not
> >> > investigated the cause yet. It is possible that the issue is already
> >> > resolved in head. I am currently building with Visual Studio 2008
> command
> >> > line.
> >>
> >> We released quite recently possibly problem is still there. Or could
> >> be you called a function with wrong arguments. Technically "a fault in
> >> the compiler" looks like a compiler bug to me.
> >>
> >> > Jas anybody else dealt with similar issues lately? It seems to have
> been
> >> a
> >> > while since anybody tried to build DLL's, although it turned out to be
> >> > pretty easy to implement...
> >> > -Craig
> >>
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