Fix for building on Windows with msys2.

3 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ecb56e2f..94ec9813 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2019-12-22         Jannick               <thirdedition@gmx.net>
+
+	* configure.ac: Hardcode the shared object extension to dll
+	on Windows platforms, i.e.whenever EXEEXT is '.exe'.
+
 2019-12-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>
 
 	* gettext.h: Update from gettext 0.20.1.
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 8d5d2d21..b771eff4 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -11057,11 +11057,17 @@ ac_config_headers="$ac_config_headers config.h:configh.in"
 
 
 
+if test "x$EXEEXT" = x.exe; then :
+  GAWKLIBEXT=dll
+else
+
 case $acl_shlibext in
 dylib)	GAWKLIBEXT=so ;;	# MacOS uses .dylib for shared libraries, but libtool uses .so for modules
 *) GAWKLIBEXT=$acl_shlibext ;;
 esac
 
+fi
+
 
 ac_config_files="$ac_config_files Makefile support/Makefile awklib/Makefile doc/Makefile extras/Makefile po/Makefile.in test/Makefile"
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f353cea3..af3432cb 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -458,10 +458,12 @@ AH_BOTTOM([#include "custom.h"])
 dnl Crude but small hack to make plug-ins work on Mac OS X
 dnl We should really use the libtool value for shrext_cmds, but that
 dnl is not available here, since we do not use libtool at the top level.
+AS_VAR_IF([EXEEXT],[.exe],[GAWKLIBEXT=dll],[
 case $acl_shlibext in
 dylib)	GAWKLIBEXT=so ;;	# MacOS uses .dylib for shared libraries, but libtool uses .so for modules
 *) GAWKLIBEXT=$acl_shlibext ;;
 esac
+])
 AC_SUBST(GAWKLIBEXT)
 
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(Makefile