[Bug ld/17196] .rsrc section from archive members are ignored (all Windows targets)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17196 Alan Modra changed: What|Removed |Added Resolution|--- |NOTABUG Status|ASSIGNED|RESOLVED --- Comment #4 from Alan Modra --- . -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
[Bug ld/17196] .rsrc section from archive members are ignored (all Windows targets)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17196 Nick Clifton nickc at redhat dot com changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |ASSIGNED CC||nickc at redhat dot com --- Comment #1 from Nick Clifton nickc at redhat dot com --- Hi Benjamin, This is not a bug. It is a feature, or mis-feature if you prefer. The problem is that the resource.o file in the resource.a archive only contains a .rsrc section. It does not contain any symbols. The linker only pulls object files out of an archive if they contain symbols that are needed by other objects in the link. So when you link rsrcbug.o with resource.a there are no unresolved symbols in rsrcbug.o and so nothing is pulled out of the archive. There are a couple of possible workarounds for this problem: * You could like with --whole-archive added before resource.a. This will force the linker to include the resource.o file even though nothing references it. Ie: i686-pc-mingw32-gcc -m32 -mwin32 -mwindows -o rsrcbug-failed.exe \ -Wl,--whole-archive rsrcbug.o resource.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive Of course this does negate one of the benefits of using archives - namely that normally only the files that your program needs are extracted from the library. * You could add a symbol to resource.o and then reference this symbol from rsrcbug.o. See the uploaded variation on your test archive for an example of how this can be done. Cheers Nick -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
[Bug ld/17196] .rsrc section from archive members are ignored (all Windows targets)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17196 --- Comment #2 from Nick Clifton nickc at redhat dot com --- Created attachment 7759 -- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=7759action=edit Modified test case that shows how to use a symbolic workaround -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
[Bug ld/17196] .rsrc section from archive members are ignored (all Windows targets)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17196 --- Comment #3 from Benjamin Gerard sashipa.ben at gmail dot com --- It makes perfect sense. I'll see which workaround suit my case better. Thank you for your time and sorry for the false alert. Cheers, Ben -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
[Bug ld/17196] .rsrc section from archive members are ignored (all Windows targets)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17196 Benjamin Gerard sashipa.ben at gmail dot com changed: What|Removed |Added Target||*-*-mingw32 *-pc-cygwin CC||sashipa.ben at gmail dot com -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
