Disable static builds by default

Static libs are generally not wanted so disable their builds by default.
Remove references to '--disable-static' from documentation and example
scripts.

INSTALL

@@ -29,15 +29,6 @@ main directory and do the following:
      The configure script has several options to configure Hamlib.  See the
      Optional Features section below.
 
-     N.B. If you know that you won't need static libaries (most applications
-     dynamically link Hamlib by default) invoke `configure' as follows:
-
-        $ ./configure --disable-static
-
-     This will result in a much smaller Hamlib installation (and faster
-     compilation :-) ).  See also the "Hamlib specific Features" section
-     below for other `configure' options.
-
      While running, `configure' prints some messages telling you which
      features it is checking for.
 
@@ -288,6 +279,3 @@ will quit before compilation is complete) if the
 --with-[perl|python|tcl]-binding option(s) are given and the Swig package is
 not installed.
 
-   Building static libraries can be disabled by use of the `--disable-static'
-option.  This will reduce the installed size of Hamlib considerably.
-

README.betatester

@@ -102,19 +102,18 @@ Git master branch daily snapshot build:
 Reading the INSTALL file in top directory will explain in more detail how
 to do the following commands.
 
-        ./configure [--disable-static] [--prefix=</usr/local>]
+        ./configure [--prefix=$HOME/local]
         make
         make install
 
 The prefix argument is optional.  Convention is that local packages be
 placed in /usr/local away from distribution installed packages  This is the
 default location for the snapshots so it may be disregarded unless you wish
-to install Hamlib elsewhere.  The '--disable-static' option speeds up
+to install Hamlib elsewhere.  The example above would install Hamlib to
-compilation if you don't plan to use static libraries (static libraries are
+the user's home directory under the 'local' subdirectory.
-usually not needed).
 
 Other useful options are '--with-perl-binding' or '--with-python-binding' or
-'--enable-tcl-binding' if you are interested in Swig binding support for
+'--with-tcl-binding' if you are interested in Swig binding support for
 those scripting languages  If you are unsure it is safe to ignore these
 options.
 

README.developer

@@ -277,12 +277,12 @@ files, i.e. configure, config.guess, Makefile, etc.  Hence after a fresh
 checkout, you'll have to generate those files.
 
 To proceed, first edit the autogen.sh script, and set appropriately the
-AUTOCONF, AUTOMAKE, and LIBTOOLIZE variables with the required versions seen
+AUTORECONF, AUTOMAKE, and LIBTOOLIZE variables with the required versions seen
 in the previous section (most systems will be fine with the default names,
 only do this if a problem arises and please let us know).
 
     cd hamlib
-    sh ./autogen.sh [--disable-static] [CFLAGS="-g -O0"]
+    sh ./autogen.sh [CFLAGS="-g -O0"]
     make
     make install
 
@@ -290,10 +290,13 @@ If you don't want the build files cluttering the source directories, do the
 following in the same parent directory of hamlib:
 
     mkdir build && cd build
-    sh ../hamlib/autogen.sh  [--disable-static] [CFLAGS="-g -O0"]
+    sh ../hamlib/autogen.sh [CFLAGS="-g -O0"]
     make
     make install
 
+Note: In the examples above, passing the CFLAGS environment variable is
+optional.
+
 This will keep the binary output files seperate from the source tree and aid
 in development by reducing clutter in the source tree.
 
@@ -304,16 +307,15 @@ year 2004 should be fine, unless you run some exotic hardware/software system:
     ./config.guess --version
     ./config.sub --version
 
-The '--prefix' option to `autogen.sh' is optional and not shown as it
+The '--prefix' option to `autogen.sh' is optional and not shown as it defaults
-defaults to /usr/local.  Convention is that locally built packages be
+to /usr/local.  Convention is that locally built packages be installed in
-installed in /usr/local away from distribution installed packages.  The
+/usr/local away from distribution installed packages.  The 'CFLAGS="-g -O0"'
-'--disable-static' and 'CFLAGS="-g -O0"' speeds up compilation if you don't
+environment variable generates less optimized binaries with the '-O0'  while the
-plan to use static libraries and can bear less optimized binaries while the
 '-g' option adds debugging info which can be changed to -ggdb to generate
 debugging info for gdb.
 
 Additionally, you may want to add the '--with-perl-binding' or
-'--with-python-binding' or '--enable-tcl-binding' if you are interested in
+'--with-python-binding' or '--with-tcl-binding' if you are interested in
 Swig binding support for those scripting languages.
 
 NOTE: The autogen.sh script has only to be run the first time after a fresh

README.win32

@@ -26,12 +26,13 @@ linking with Windows apps:
 1. To create the dlls, do the following from within Cygwin (assumes
 Cygwin is fully updated):
 
-# export CC="gcc -mno-cygwin"
+$ export CC="gcc -mno-cygwin"
-# export CXX="g++ -mno-cygwin"
+$ export CXX="g++ -mno-cygwin"
-# ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-static  \
+$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local \
---without-tcl-binding --without-perl-binding \
+--build=i686-pc-cygwin \
---without-python-binding --build=i686-pc-cygwin --host=i686-pc-mingw32 \
+--host=i686-pc-mingw32 \
 --target=i686-pc-mingw32
+
 Note: on subsequent runs you can replace ./autogen.sh with ./configure
 unless there are modifications to any .ac, .m4, or Makefile.am file.
 In that case, "make clean", and re-run autogen as above.

configure.ac

@@ -268,33 +268,29 @@ AC_LIBOBJ([dummy])
 ## ------------------------ ##
 ## libtool  Initialisation. ##
 ## ------------------------ ##
-## N.b. LT_INIT([dlopen], [win32-dll])  does not work for older libtool
+
 LT_PREREQ([2.2.6b])
 
-# Name the subdirectory that contains libltdl sources
+dnl Name the subdirectory that contains libltdl sources
 LT_CONFIG_LTDL_DIR([libltdl])
 
-# Name the subdirectory that contains libltdl sources
+dnl N.B. LT_INIT([dlopen], [win32-dll]) does not work for older libtool
-LT_INIT([dlopen win32-dll])
+dnl so require new enough version above.  Disable static library builds as
+dnl the frontend and backend libs are not linked.  May need a recipe outside
+dnl of Libtool if these are needed.
+LT_INIT([dlopen win32-dll disable-static])
 
-# Enable building of the convenience libltdl library
+dnl Enable building of the convenience libltdl library
-# (requires --with-included-ltdl be given to configure for the included
+dnl (requires --with-included-ltdl be given to configure for the included
-# libltdl to be used), useful on systems where libltdl-dev is not installed.
+dnl libltdl to be used instead of an installed version), useful on systems
+dnl where libltdl-dev is not installed.
 LTDL_INIT([convenience])
 
-dnl AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN
-dnl AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
-dnl AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
-dnl AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
-dnl INCLTDL=""
-dnl LIBLTDL="-lltdl"
-dnl AC_SUBST([INCLTDL])
-dnl AC_SUBST([LIBLTDL])
-
 
 ## -------------------------- ##
 ## Custom host configurations ##
 ## -------------------------- ##
+
 AS_CASE(["$host_os"],
     [freebsd*], [
         AM_CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include ${AM_CPPFLAGS}"
@@ -317,25 +313,12 @@ AS_CASE(["$host_os"],
         WINLDFLAGS="-Wl,--output-def,libhamlib.def -Wl,--add-stdcall-alias"
         AC_SUBST([WINLDFLAGS])
 
-dnl     # Prerequisite for Mingw build (import and build internal ./libltdl):
-dnl     #   $ libtoolize --ltdl
-dnl     #   $ ( cd libltdl; ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc && make )
-dnl     # Use internal ./libltdl during configure:
-dnl     CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -I./libltdl"
-
-dnl     # use internal $(top_builddir)/libltdl during build:
-dnl     INCLTDL="-I\$(top_builddir)/libltdl"
-dnl     AC_SUBST([INCLTDL])
-
-dnl     #   - use internal $(top_builddir)/libltdl during build and library 'ltdlc':
-dnl     LIBLTDL="-L\$(top_builddir)/libltdl -lltdlc"
-dnl     AC_SUBST([LIBLTDL])
-
         # Enable ld's "auto import" for executables
         WINEXELDFLAGS="-Wl,--enable-auto-import"
         AC_SUBST([WINEXELDFLAGS])
     ])
 
+
 ## ---------------------- ##
 ## External package tests ##
 ## ---------------------- ##

scripts/build-VB.NET.sh

@@ -175,17 +175,12 @@ mv include/hamlib/rig_dll.h include/hamlib/rig_dll.h.orig
 sed -e 's/__cdecl/__stdcall/' <include/hamlib/rig_dll.h.orig >include/hamlib/rig_dll.h
 rm include/hamlib/rig_dll.h.orig
 
-# Import internal ./libltdl and build it for mingw32
-libtoolize --ltdl
-cd libltdl; ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc && make; cd ..
-
 # Configure and build hamlib for mingw32, with libusb-win32
 
-./configure --disable-static \
+./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc \
- --host=i586-mingw32msvc \
  --prefix=`pwd`/mingw-inst \
- --without-rpc-backends \
  --without-cxx-binding \
+ --with-included-ltdl \
  PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=${LIBUSB_WIN32_BIN_PATH}/lib/pkgconfig
 
 make install
@@ -201,7 +196,6 @@ for f in AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING COPYING.LIB LICENSE README README.betatester
     cp -a ${f} ${ZIP_DIR}/${f}.txt ; todos ${ZIP_DIR}/${f}.txt ; done
 
 # Copy build files into specific locations for Zip file
-cp -a ${INST_DIR}/bin/{rigctld.exe,rigctl.exe,rigmem.exe,rigsmtr.exe,rigswr.exe,rotctld.exe,rotctl.exe} ${ZIP_DIR}/bin/.
 cp -a ${INST_DIR}/lib/hamlib/hamlib-*.dll ${ZIP_DIR}/bin/.
 cp -a ${INST_DIR}/bin/libhamlib-?.dll ${ZIP_DIR}/bin/.
 cp -a ${INST_DIR}/lib/libhamlib.dll.a ${ZIP_DIR}/lib/gcc/.
@@ -213,3 +207,4 @@ cp -a ${LIBUSB_WIN32_BIN_PATH}/bin/x86/libusb0_x86.dll ${ZIP_DIR}/bin/libusb0.dl
 # Need VC++ free toolkit installed (default Wine directory installation shown)
 ( cd ${ZIP_DIR}/lib/msvc/ && wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Visual\ C++\ Toolkit\ 2003/bin/link.exe /lib /machine:i386 /def:libhamlib-2.def )
 zip -r hamlib-VB.NET-${RELEASE}.zip `basename ${ZIP_DIR}`
+

scripts/build-win32.sh

@@ -170,8 +170,7 @@ END_OF_README
 
 # Configure and build hamlib for mingw32, with libusb-win32
 
-./configure --disable-static \
+./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc \
- --host=i586-mingw32msvc \
  --prefix=`pwd`/mingw-inst \
  --without-cxx-binding \
  --with-included-ltdl \