Ondrej Pokorny <laza...@kluug.net> schrieb am Do., 6. Juni 2024, 11:56:
> On 06.06.2024 11:16, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: > > Ondrej Pokorny via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> schrieb > am Do., 6. Juni 2024, 09:30: > >> Hello, >> >> I am on Windows 64bit, but using the i386 compiler. >> >> I have to link a 3rd party OBJ file with {$L 'xyz.obj'}. >> >> With the internal linker I get these errors: >> Error: COMDAT selection mode 0 not supported (section: "0") >> Error: Failed reading coff file, invalid section index while >> reading xyz.obj >> Error: Associative COMDAT section for section ".rdata" not found >> > > Can you provide a small example as a bug report that shows this behavior > (preferably also with source for the object file) so that we can improve > the internal linker? > > >> So I tried to use the external linker with -Xe and I get these errors: >> Linking myProgram.exe >> ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L/usr/lib' >> ld: warning: directory not found for option >> '-F/System/Library/Frameworks/' >> ld: warning: option -b is obsolete and being ignored >> ld: file not found: pei-i386 >> Error: Error while linking >> > > That reads like the compiler is picking up the wrong linker (a WSL one > perhaps?). The ld.exe (probably with platform prefix) should already be > located in the compiler's binary directory and PATH needs to point to that > first. > > Thank you Sven for the help! > > I changed the PATH so that the FPC bin directory is the first entry and > the output indeed changed: I get only "Error: Error while linking" output > without additional information that I got before. > > You should probably look at the unfiltered output of the message window. Furthermore, I see from the docs that the -XR isn't supported on Windows ( > https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/user/userap1.html) > -XR<x> Prepend <x> to all linker search paths (BeOS, Darwin, FreeBSD, > Linux, Mac OS, Solaris) > > Maybe it would be good to support it on Windows as well to be able to > explicitly tell which linker to use. > -XR does not do what you think it does. It only exists for specific cross compiling issues on *nix platforms. If you need to specify a path for the binutils you can use -FD<x>. Regards, Sven >
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