[Mingw-users] Updated: binutils-2.21.53-1

[Chris S. <ir0...@gm...>]

I've uploaded binutils-2.21.53-1 that is dynamically linked to libintl
as opposed to statically linking it, thereby reducing the size of the
binutil binaries.  I have configured binutils with the following
options:

--target=mingw32 \
--host=mingw32 \
--build=mingw32 \
--with-sysroot=/mingw \
--prefix=/mingw

This release is based on a snapshot from the binutils CVS to address
the issue reported here:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27899060

To dynamically link against libintl, I modified binutils config.rpath
such that the following lines:

 cygwin* | mingw* | pw32*)
   shrext=.dll
   ;;

Are now:

 cygwin* | mingw* | pw32*)
   shrext=.dll.a
   ;;

This was the only modification to the official binutils sources.

To manually update, the files are:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/BaseSystem/GNU-Binutils/binutils-2.21.1/binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/BaseSystem/GNU-Binutils/binutils-2.21.1/binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/BaseSystem/GNU-Binutils/binutils-2.21.1/binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma/download

The source is available here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/BaseSystem/GNU-Binutils/binutils-2.21.1/binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-src.tar.lzma/download

To upgrade via the installer:

mingw-get update
mingw-get upgrade mingw32-binutils

I've added libintl as a requirement for the latest release, so
mingw-get will pull down the necessary dependencies as well.

Please report any issues to the mingw-users mailing list.

Chris

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Chris Sutcliffe
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