Re[2]: [Mingw-users] Dll Loading

[RomikB <ro...@ma...>]

Hello Luke,

Friday, June 20, 2003, 1:02:46 PM, you wrote:

LD> First please see this page about what information you need to include when
LD> reporting a problem: http://www.mingw.org/bugs.shtml
LD> I can't reproduce this with a trivial example so you'll need to provide a
LD> small test case, and you can try comparing the DLLs yourself to find out
LD> what is changing with "-s", for example with this command:
LD> objdump -p file.dll

In gcc manual(linker options):
-s
Remove all symbol table and relocation information from the executable.

In ld manual:
-s, -strip-all
Omit all symbol information from the output file. 

So when i using -s I lost relocation information, but .reloc section
still exist, and dll's that have the same or crossing base addreses
can't be loaded succesfuly.

GCC 3.2.3
MinGW 2.0.0-3
GNU ld version 2.13.90 20030104

>> I create a set of dll's.
>> I use:
>> gcc -O2 -shared -Wl,-s -o file.dll file.c
>> But when i try load them, I get an error: not all dll's can be loaded.
>> When I remove -Wl,-s switch a problem disapear, but dll's now it TOOO
>> BIG.
>> Please answer how can I reduse the size of dll.
>> (I don't need debug or symbol info. Need only relocation info.)

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 RomikB                            mailto:ro...@ma...