[Bug 467409] Review Request: mingw32-atk - MinGW Windows Atk library

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Erik van Pienbroek <erik-fedora at vanpienbroek.nl> changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Erik van Pienbroek <erik-fedora at vanpienbroek.nl>  2009-01-30 06:01:32 EDT ---
The .def file contains a list of all the functions which need to be exported in
the .DLL file. It is only used by the linker. After a .DLL has been made, the
file has no further use (unless you want to create Visual C++ import libraries,
but there are other ways to generate those from MinGW-compiled DLL's). When
compiling other libraries/applicaties the .def file isn't used, just the .dll
and .dll.a files.

These .def files aren't created by libtool, but by some individual packages
(like glib2, atk, pango and gtk2) as part of the make job. This can be seen at
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/atk/trunk/atk/Makefile.am?view=markup (lines 139 to
150 and 168-169)

There was a page on the MinGW site with more details about this, but
unfortunately it got lost:

  The Old MinGWiki pages are again offline as a result of action from SF due to
  flock issues with the phpwiki application. We'll be trying a different
approach.


Another small thing I've found with this package is the lack of a Requires:
pkgconfig

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