Re: [Mingw-users] autoimport problems

[<dan...@ya...>]

 --- Gisle Vanem <gv...@br...> wrote: > I have somthing like this in my code:
>   #include <ws2tcpip.h>
>   struct in6_addr ia6;
> 
>   ia6 = in6addr_any;
>   ..
> 
> which doesn't work; ld says:
> variable 'in6addr_any' can't be auto-imported.
> 
> If I do
>   #include <ws2tcpip.h>
>   struct in6_addr *ia6;
> 
>   ia6 = &in6addr_any;
>   ..
> 
> it works. How come? Is there some bug in relocating and contents
> of structs?
> 
 
Not really a bug, but a limitation of how linking to data dllimports
works.

The ld you are using is rather old.  Update to recent version and 
search for auto-import in ld.info. The --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc
option should fix the problem.

Danny

> gcc version 3.3.1 (mingw special 20030804-1)
> GNU ld version 2.13.90 20030111
> 
> --gv
> 
> 
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