README of copydlldeps.sh ======================== This document was created 2016-02-05. It belongs to copydlldeps.sh and is part of the MXE project. I call it on the command line like: ``` /share/mxe/tools/copydlldeps.sh --infile /home/mxeuser/test/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Application.exe \ --destdir /home/mxeuser/testdlls/ \ --recursivesrcdir /home/mxeuser/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/ \ --srcdir /home/mxeuser/test/ \ --copy \ --enforce /home/mxeuser/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/qt5/plugins/platforms/ \ --objdump /home/mxeuser/mxe/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32.shared-objdump ``` It got embedded in a build script like: ``` MXEPATH=/path/to/mxe compiler=i686-w64-mingw32.shared orgDir=/path/to/my/nsis/dll #nsis is then copying all dlls in there to the place where the exe is located if [ ! $( echo $compiler | grep -q "shared" ) ]; then echo "\$compiler=$compiler and contains the word 'shared'" | tee -a $CURLOG echo "+-----------------------------------------------+ " | tee -a $CURLOG echo "| Starting new MXE copydlldeps.sh by LHE DL5RCW | " | tee -a $CURLOG echo "+-----------------------------------------------+ " | tee -a $CURLOG echo "currently working in $( pwd ) " | tee -a $CURLOG executable=$( find . -name "*.exe" | tail -n 1 ) if [ -e $MXEPATH/usr/bin/$compiler-objdump ]; then echo "now populating dir=${orgDir}/nsis/sharedLibs with dll dependencies of executable=$executable" | tee -a $CURLOG $MXEPATH/tools/copydlldeps.sh --infile $executable \ --destdir ${orgDir}/nsis/sharedLibs \ --recursivesrcdir $MXEPATH/usr/$compiler/ \ --enforce $MXEPATH/usr/$compiler/qt5/plugins/platforms/ \ --copy \ --objdump $MXEPATH/usr/bin/$compiler-objdump | tee -a $CURLOG else echo "now populating dir=${orgDir}/nsis/sharedLibs with dll dependencies of executable=$executable" | tee -a $CURLOG $MXEPATH/tools/copydlldeps.sh --infile $executable \ --destdir ${orgDir}/nsis/sharedLibs \ --recursivesrcdir $MXEPATH/usr/$compiler/ \ --enforce $MXEPATH/usr/$compiler/qt5/plugins/platforms/ \ --copy | tee -a $CURLOG fi ``` Additional hints ================ objdump ------- I checked if there is a mxe objdump. If not, I took the native one on my server. I actually do not know the difference but decided to include it in the script in case it is important to someone enforce ------- My application is using Qt5 and objdump did not return the needed qwindows.dll - so I enforce the platform folder. You may add multiple --enforce directories using --enforce /path/folder1 --enforce /path/folder2 --enforce /path/folder3 They are NOT recursively copied, only flat. See: string=$( find $enforcedDirectory -maxdepth 1 -iregex '.*\(dll\|exe\)' | tr '\n' ' ' ) If you would remove the -maxdepth 1, it would become recoursive. Does anyone need that? 2016-02-10 Lars Holger Engelhard - DL5RCW