[Python-Dev] Library pragma in PC/config.h

[Trent Mick]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 05:22:17PM +0200, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 08:18:12AM -0700, Trent Mick wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:41:12PM +0200, Rene Liebscher wrote:
> > > I forgot to ask which name you would like for debug libraries
> 
> > > 	"python20_bcpp_d.lib" or "python20_d_bcpp.lib"
> 
> > > may be we should use "bcpp_python20_d.lib", and use the name schema
> > > which I suggested first.
> 
> > Python20 is most important so it should go first.
> 
> To clarify something Rene said earlier (I appear to have deleted that mail
> eventhough I had intended to reply to it :P) 'gcc' names its libraries
> 'libpython<version>.{so,a}' because that's the UNIX convention: libraries
> are named 'lib<name>.<libtype>', where libtype is '.a' for static libraries
> and '.so' for dynamic (ELF, in any case) ones, and you link with -l<name>,
> without the 'lib' in front of it. The 'lib' is UNIX-imposed, not something
> gcc or Guido made up.
> 

Yes, you are right. I was being a Windows bigot there for an email. :)


Trent

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