From: Greg C. <chi...@co...> - 2005-05-20 16:41:54
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['min...@li...' removed from cc: it should be a mere alias for 'min...@li...' IIRC] On 2005-05-20 11:15 AM, Christian Ehrlicher wrote: > Hello, > > When I want to link qt3/free (http://kde-cygwin.sf.net/qt3-win32) I have > the problem that ld needs a lot of memory. I found out, that for every > symbol in every objectfile a new bfd is created. Because qt3 has about > 400 files, my 512MB of Ram aren't enough and windows starts swapping. At > the end it took about 3 - 5 hours to link. > > Does anyone have an idea why this all is needed and why it works fine > with linux? I'm guessing that an import library is used. See http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/gnu-linker/win32.html especially the section "direct linking to a dll". |