[OTR-dev] mingw build instructions/improvements

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:

> Pidgin should really harden their builds. My attempts in that area have
> been stalled for quite some time and I've basically given up on them:
> http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/13879
>
> I think we want to add hardening options to all of the libraries we use
> during the build process. We could easily hack up some patches for our
> own build process and if they'd like it, we can send them upstream. Any
> thoughts on that Ian?

Just make sure you do not override, but only add to the common build
flags like CFLAGS and LDFLAGS et all. Because otherwise you will be
undoing the distro's defaults. For example relro and -fPIE are part
of the redhat build system flags.

Paul