On Sunday 10 June 2001 12:58 am, Robert Collins wrote:
> Paul's patch to ld to auto-import symbols seems to work well. I'm
> currently putting it through all the tortuorus combinations I can think
> of, that libtool would allow users to do. I've had no trouble so far,
> except a small conflict with the dll base address, that was hard to find
> but was easy to fix :].
>
> Now my question for the list:
>
> Does libtool support non-gcc compilers on win32 at the present time?
> Are there plans to do so?
Yes it does. However, it has probably bitrotted to the point of uselessness.
Currently we assume MSVC++ if gcc is not detected on Windows, but it would
not be difficult to add support for others into the existing framework if
they can be recognised by a configure test.
> reason for asking:
> Pauls' LD will allow use to use _no_ decoration in headers and still
> link to dlls, and produce dlls that are compatible with existing
> programs. This is a good thing.
Cool!
> However MS's linker and probably borlands don't have that functionality.
> (I _love_ free software!).
Me too =)O|
Cheers,
Gary.
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