I hoped to get a better understanding (?) in trying to compile this stuff myself...

Yes, that's the way to learn - though picking something as large as glib is just as likely to lead to "utter confusion" as to "understanding" ;-)
(At least I sure am glad I didn't try to learn what I know by building glib.)

I thought that the copying trick (*.dell.a -> *.a) removed the need to gives the -lxxx in the LIBS parameter

No, no - you always need to give the -lxxx argument. But if you provide the -lxxx argument && the 'perl Makefile.PL' step emits the warning that no library was found for -lxxx && you know that libxxx.dll.a was in the library search path THEN you need to copy libxxx.dll.a to libxxx.a (because your version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker was obviously too stupid to equate -lxxx with libxxx.dll.a but will be quite capable of equating -lxxx with libxxx.a).

And what is the :nosearch added to the beginning of the LIBS parameter doing ?

Where in this thread is ":nosearch" mentioned ?
Ok ... there are already 2 occurrences of the term in this post of mine, and I can see it in your previous post (to which I'm replying) but I can't see it anywhere else and I therefore don't see the relevance of the question.

I reckon I've seen ":nosearch" in other places, but I don't know what it means and it's not something I've had to bother about in the past. Google can probably provide an explanation.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^3: Help with compiling glib by syphilis
in thread Help with compiling glib by frazap

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