FS#22903 - [mingw32-gcc] dlls installed to wrong location

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 18:48 GMT
Last edited by Sergej Pupykin (sergej) - Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 20:56 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The dlls of the mingw32-gcc and mingw32-runtime packages should be installed to /usr/i486-mignw32/bin instead of /usr/i486-mignw32/lib. The reasoning is that they are required at runtime and they are not actually linked against like a .so or .a. Instead, people link against their .dll.a and the .dll needs to be available at runtime.

Windows expects them to be in the same directory as the main executable when run. I propose they should install to bin/ instead. Looking at the AUR, many packages prefer that location and autotools also targets that directory for dlls when cross-compiling.
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Closed by  Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 20:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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