[ace-users] Note for mingw32 compiling

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

I have added the change to platform_mingw32.GNU, not sure what todo with
your second remark.

Regards,

Johnny Willemsen
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"andy" <ypwangandy at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:<1183082411.763690.17190 at n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com>...
> Hi, All
> 
> Here are some notes for compiling on Mingw32.
> 
> 1. mingw+SSL
> usually the openssl compiled on mingw32 is libssl32.a(libssl32.dll)
> and libeay32.a(libeay32.dll) so it is better to use these. Do the
> changing below.
> $ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_mingw32.GNU
> +PLATFORM_SSL_LIBS = -lssl32 -leay32
> 
> actually you can still use libssl.a and libcrypto.a (which are static
> library) but you need to add "-lgdi32" in order to make linker happy
> since the crypto/rand/rand_win.c uses CreateDC and related stuff.
> 
> 2. libACE.dll needs mingwm10.dll
> >From Mingw mthr.c::__mingwthr_key_dtor
>  *  - gcc uses -mthreads option
>  *  - user code uses C++ exceptions
>  *
>  * The sole job of the Mingw thread support DLL (MingwThr) is to
> catch
>  * all the dying threads and clean up the data allocated in the TLSs
>  * for exception contexts during C++ EH. Posix threads have key
> dtors,
>  * but win32 TLS keys do not, hence the magic. Without this, there's
> at
>  * least `6 * sizeof (void*)' bytes leaks for each catch/throw in each
>  * thread. The only public interface is __mingwthr_key_dtor().
>  *
>  * Created by Mumit Khan  <khan at nanotech.wisc.edu>
> 
> Enjoy!
> Andy
>