[Scons-users] MS Visual Studio Install tries to find a not-existing file

[Philipp Kraus]

On 2012-08-21 04:00:57 +0200, Gary Oberbrunner said:


> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Kraus Philipp

> <philipp.kraus at flashpixx.de> wrote:

>> Hello,

>> 

>> I compile under MS Visual Studio 2010 Express the LUA library.

>> 

>> lib = envlua.Library(target="lua", source=libsrc)

>> envlua.Install( "targetpath", lib )

>> 

>> In this case, VS builds a *.lib file and installs it within the target 

>> directory.

>> So if I switch to a shared library:

>> 

>> lib = envlua.SharedLibrary(target="lua", source=libsrc)

>> envlua.Install( "targetpath", lib )

>> 

>> The Install command shows:

>> scons: *** [library\build\LUA\5.2.1\lib\lua.lib] library\lua.lib: No 

>> such file or directory

>> 

>> It is a correct error message, but no lua.lib is build (static build), 

>> so the Install command

>> searches the static and the dynamic library. It seems, that the Install 

>> command searches

>> on dynamic build also a static library.

>> 

>> I would like to build only the DLL not the static version and would 

>> like to install the file

>> in the target place

> 

> SharedLibrary on Windows actually creates three files: the dll, the

> import library (the .lib), and a .exp file.  The builder returns a

> list of all three of them in that order, so your lib[0] is the .dll

> and so on.  Note that when you build a dll on Windows, you do need to

> build the corresponding .lib -- it's not a static lib, it's the import

> lib.  (It's not like other OSes.)  If your code isn't producing a

> .lib, you probably are missing your export directives.


Yes thanks Garry, I have read the MSDN and see the difference on Windows
DLLs and other OS's. In this case I need a compilerflag to activate the exports
of the DLL.

Phil