Re[2]: [MinGW-dvlpr] Confusion amongst users [WAS: Fwd: Re: [Mingw-users] libstdc++.dll]

[Paul S. <pf...@us...>]

Hello Danny,

Danny Smith wrote on Wednesday, May 23, 2001:
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>> build a MinGW version without much concern but perhaps some of Paul
>> Sokolovsky's work needs to be added.

DS> Please, what does "some" mean?
DS> These are the features of Paul's work that I know about (Paul, forgive
DS> -- and correct-- me if I misrepresent):

DS> 1). libbfd and  libopcodes built as dlls.
DS>    Q: Is it really worth building opcodes as dll?  It is small lib and
DS> only dependency is in binutils in objdump. GDB also depends on opcodes.

    I built something as dll if it represents interest on its own.
Both libbfd and libopcodes do - they can be used in different
debuggers, binary viewers, etc. Having them as dll may support reuse.

DS> 2) -shared is builtin as default.  In practice, this means basically
DS> that ld looks first for libfoo.dll.a, then for libfoo.a.  (there are
DS> other details of the search priority but that is the main idea).

    Not, I have no connection to this stuff at all, period ;-) .
That's just how it works (IIRC, the patch was made by Chuck Wilson,
and cygwin works that way for almost year now).

DS> 3  -export-all excludes libgcc.a and libstdc++.a names (by context) and
DS> other troublesome symbols (Is this patch in Cygwin yet? Chris hinted at
DS> it in binutils message).  Paul,  any progress getting this into
DS> mainline source?

    I asked Chris not to hurry with it, hoping to get rest of patched
to the main rep also. Unfortunately, still no news.

DS> 4 auto-import is turned on by default.  IMHO, this feature (if it is
DS> incorporated at all) should not be set as default.  Not until it has
DS> been more thoroughly tested with C++ code.  I don't like it personally.

    Whole KDE is being ported with it now: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kde-cygwin
I don't understand your skepticism. Unless it is proven to be harmful
in some aspect, it'd better be on by default, by issue warning -
otherwise, it will be simply underused.

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DS> Danny
>> --
>> Earnie.

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