Re: [Mingw-users] DLL/.NET invalid access to memory location

[Aaron W. L. <aar...@aa...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:

>> DaveK and others - many thanks for the help on this. After reading 
>> your pointers I tracked down the problem to the fact that I was using 
>> dllwrap in my build scripts, which apparently is broken in that it 
>> inserts duplicate relocs, so whenever a DLL is rebased it seems to 
>> fail with this exception. I've switched to building with 'gcc 
>> -shared' and it all works great!

> Dllwrap has been deprecated for years and IIRC dlltool has been too.  
> Can we think about removing these from the distributions?

Unfortunately dlltool is not a complete superset of ld.  It would be a 
good project to merge all special dlltool features into ld and remove 
dlltool, possibly making dlltool an alias for ld or something, but some 
work would need to be done.