[tor-bugs] #23846 [Core Tor/Tor]: Use libtool for building shared library

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#23846: Use libtool for building shared library
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 Reporter:  hellais                              |          Owner:  sbs
     Type:  enhancement                          |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_review
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.3.4.x-final
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-mobile, s8-api,                  |  Actual Points:
  034-triage-20180328 034-included-20180402 034  |
  -roadmap-subtask                               |
Parent ID:  #25510                               |         Points:
 Reviewer:  ahf                                  |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  Sponsor8
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Comment (by nickm):

 To try to answer your questions: we use msys+mingw for our windows builds;
 we don't support or recommend MSVC.  MSYS2 should be fine.

 I'd love appveyor support, but there's already a ticket for that, with
 some work in progress: see #25549.  They aren't done yet; maybe they could
 use some help.

 I'd be fine having an automake rule to install the static library and
 header, but it would need to be off-by-default, and enabled with --enable-
 library-install or something.

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