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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2020-01-20 18:31:01 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2020-01-20 18:31:45 (GMT) |
| commit | afbbfe51090e5575e11c4e3cdbddfa55c76d9966 (patch) | |
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| parent | 941c09616bc214db77e3b1b7e5229517db08b45c (diff) | |
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MinGW: Update find_library to not find plain .dll files
Modern distributions of packages built with MinGW tools provide `.dll.a`
import libraries. Prefer those instead of finding plain `.dll` files.
This avoids accidentally finding unrelated Windows `.dll` files.
Fixes: #20019
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diff --git a/Help/release/dev/mingw-find-no-dll.rst b/Help/release/dev/mingw-find-no-dll.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84e7431 --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/release/dev/mingw-find-no-dll.rst @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +mingw-find-no-dll +----------------- + +* When using MinGW tools, the :command:`find_library` command no longer + finds ``.dll`` files by default. Instead it expects ``.dll.a`` import + libraries to be available. |