Re: [Mingw-users] dlltool

[John V. <ja...@gm...>]

On 2/23/07, Brian Elmegaard <be...@me...> wrote:
> "John Vandenberg" <ja...@gm...>
> writes:
>
> > Have you asked the gnumex mailing list?
>
> Yes, I have an ongoing discussion. However, the idea actually is to
> avoid using gnumex :-)
>
> > They may already have provided patches to the dlltool maintainers (
> > binutils ).
>
> So it is binutils and not mingw that has a problem? I thought dlltool
> was windows specific and thus part of mingw.

Well ... nobody really has a problem; you could continue to use
mexdlltool even tho it makes you itchy :-)

mingw.org redistributes lots of programs that are maintained by other
projects; MinGW is comprised of the projects gcc, binutils, and gnu
make.  That said, this list is as good a place as any to be discussing
this at the moment, as there are a few folk on this list who are
involved in those other projects.

dlltool also works on linux and other platforms; dlltool's purpose is
too merely know about the dll format, so as a result of being written
in a cross platform way, it works on any operating system.  And as a
result projects like Wine and ReactOS are able to do crazy/amazing
things.

> > ... MinGW dlltool is missing the "-E" option that mexdlltool has.  Are
> > you using that flag with mexdlltool ?
>
> Yes I do. Is this missing feature a bug in dlltool in binutils? In
> that case I will just wait a while.

I dont see -E as an available option in my copies of dlltool on any
platform, and the gnumex CVS repository holds a (reverse) diff that
introduces -E and a few other options into the gnumex version of
dlltool.

http://gnumex.cvs.sourceforge.net/gnumex/gnumex/src/dlltool.c.diff?revision=1.1.1.1&view=markup

It is possible that they have submitted this patch to binutils, but
you might be waiting a while, as the patch may have been rejected for
any of a multitude of reasons.  Best to ask the gnumex list about the
status of that patch.

--
John