Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Generic DLL questions

[Danny S. <dan...@cl...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Bellon" 
Sent: Tuesday, 1 November 2005 21:49


> Brian Dessent wrote:
> > Stefan Bellon wrote:
> 
> > > Are you sure this works like you describe it? The man page of "ld"
> > > says that --out-implib only works when linking a DLL (i.e.
> > > -shared). And in fact, the version of gcc that I have here seems to
> > > agree: --out-implib is simply ignored when linking an executable.
> 
> > It works fine here:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Ah, you are right. It works for C, but it does not work if the main
> program is written in Ada.
> 

Don't you have to hardcode this into a pragma in Ada?

pragma Linker_Options ("-out-implib libfoo.a");

A bug report about gnatlink's failure to honour target flags was opened here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20530 
and closed as invalid,

Danny
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> Stefan Bellon
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