[vlc-devel] libvlc{, core}.dll.a missing in vlc-2.1.1-win32.7z (sdk/lib)

[Rafaël Carré]

Le 18/11/2013 23:50, Jean-Baptiste Kempf a écrit :
> On 18 Nov, Rafaël Carré wrote :
>> Le 18/11/2013 22:45, Jérôme Forissier a écrit :
>>>
>>> On 18 nov. 2013, at 18:09, Rafaël Carré wrote:
>>>
>>>> Le 17/11/2013 15:55, Jérôme Forissier a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>> On 17 nov. 2013, at 11:29, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 17 Nov, Jérôme Forissier wrote :
>>>>>>> ...is it intentional?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You should have the .lib for those.
>>>>>
>>>>> Indeed. But they should be named vlc.lib and vlccore.lib, according to http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Specify_the_libraries_for_the_linker_to_use
>>>>
>>>> Right because our DLL are libvlc.dll and libvlccore.dll and on unix
>>>> -lvlc removes the 'lib' prefix
>>>>
>>>> Can you try the following one-liner lib file ?
>>>>
>>>> $ cat vlc.lib
>>>> INPUT(libvlc.lib)
>>>
>>> Works fine.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>
>> Thanks, I added these ones so the next nightly builds should have it.
>>
>> BTW I think we could remove the libvlc.lib / libvlccore.lib name
>> completely, no?
> 
> Why? Visual Studio needs those, AFAIK.

Yes it needs an import lib, it can use vlc.lib and vlccore.lib.

> Moreover, when compiling the contribs, all static libraries are called
> with libsomething.a and the flags are -lsomething. Therefore, our static
> libraries should be libvlc.(lib|dll.a) and should be fine to link with
> -lvlc. Why should it be different?

That is exactly the problem, to link with -lvlc we need vlc.lib

> With my kindest regards,
>