Build static libraries on WinNT

[Vladimir Sirotenko <sirotenko@fnal.gov>]

Hi,

I am having problems with linking my server application with static EPICS
libraries (like xxxObj.lib from
the default build) on NT.
It's a mistery to me:
when I build make from cas\example and asking
make host STATIC_BUILD=YES
I got

cl  /nologo /D__STDC__=0 /Ox  /W3
   /MT    -I. -I..  -I../../../../../include
-I../../../../../include/os/WIN32      -c /Tp  ../exChannel.cc
exChannel.cc
make[3]: Entering directory
`D:/epics/R3.13.2.DLL/base/src/cas/example/simple/O.
WIN32'
link -nologo /WARN:3 /incremental:no /opt:ref /release
ion:3.13      -out:e
xcas.exe main.obj exServer.obj exPV.obj exVectorPV.obj exScalarPV.obj
exAsyncPV.
obj exChannel.obj    ../../../../../lib/WIN32/casObj.lib
../../../../../lib/WIN
32/caObj.lib  ../../../../../lib/WIN32/gddObj.lib
../../../../../lib/WIN32/ComO
bj.lib   ws2_32.lib advapi32.lib user32.lib
MSVCRT.lib(MSVCRT.dll) : error LNK2005: _fprintf already defined in
LIBCMT.lib(f
printf.obj)
MSVCRT.lib(MSVCRT.dll) : error LNK2005: _printf already defined in
LIBCMT.lib(pr
intf.obj)
MSVCRT.lib(MSVCRT.dll) : error LNK2005: _strstr already defined in
LIBCMT.lib(st

and so on ...........

It looks like producing a base build with /MD compiler option (which uses
MSVCRT.LIB) and trying to
build application with /MT compiler option (LIBCMT.LIB)

So I decided to go step by step and build base EPICS from scratch on Windows
NT.
Using explicitly make command

make host SHARED_LIBRARIES=NO

but did not get through, I received:

cl  /nologo /D__STDC__=0 /Ox  /W3



/MD -DEPICS_DLL_NO  -I. -I..  -I../../../include -I../../../include/os/WIN32
      -c   ../sdr2device.c
sdr2device.c
cl  /nologo /D__STDC__=0 /Ox  /W3



/MD -DEPICS_DLL_NO  -I. -I..  -I../../../include -I../../../include/os/WIN32
      -c   ../sdr2recordtype.c
sdr2recordtype.c
../sdr2recordtype.c(207) : warning C4018: '<' : signed/unsigned mismatch
../sdr2recordtype.c(224) : warning C4018: '<' : signed/unsigned mismatch
../sdr2recordtype.c(122) : warning C4101: 'precDes' : unreferenced local
variable
../sdr2recordtype.c(139) : warning C4101: 'valuestring' : unreferenced local
variable
../sdr2recordtype.c(123) : warning C4101: 'pchoiceRec' : unreferenced local
variable
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `../../../lib/WIN32/Com.lib', needed by
`sf2db.exe'.  Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `D:/epics/R3.13.2.N/base/src/cvtDctsdr/O.WIN32'
make[2]: *** [WIN32] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `D:/epics/R3.13.2.N/base/src/cvtDctsdr'
make[1]: *** [cvtDctsdr.host] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `D:/epics/R3.13.2.N/base/src'
make: *** [src.host] Error 2

Can you advise me how to handle this situation? Did someone build static
libraries on NT?

Also, I am little bit confused about the switches: even in case of static
build I still have /MD (multithreaded DLL),
but we are not building DLL's. Why it is here? And also, what is the meaning
of __STDC__ flag?

Thanks,

Vladimir