On Thu, 24 May 2012, Mark Brand wrote:

>> And can we really do that to libcurl.pc without ruining how it is used for
>> "normal" shared linking?
>
> -DCURL_STATICLIB should appear in libcurl.pc only when libcurl is built only
> as a static library. I imagine this should be sensitive to the configure
> option '--disable-shared'.

Most builds are likely to build both shared and static libraries, since that's
what configure does by default.

> This solution is not suitable for a configuration building both static and
> shared libcurl, but I don't think this can be done using mingw anyway, which
> is the important case.

The important case for you, yes. libcurl.pc and friends are generic for many
systems though...

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