Re: [Mingw-users] libaddr2line.a: dependencies of libbfd.a?

[Jannick <thi...@gm...>]

Hi Eli,

Thanks for this.

> From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:el...@gn...]
> Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2016 5:37 PM
> >
> > mingw32-g++.exe -o t.exe main.c -lbfd -lintl -liberty -lz
> >
> > should be fine, in principle, i.e. MinGW’s bfd appears to depend on the
> libraries intl, (l)iberty and z, at least.
> > For MinGW compilation gcc needs -LC:\MinGW\msys\1.0\lib for linking.
> > But still, the MinGW compiler is
> > complaining:
> >
> > c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/5.3.0/../../../libbfd.a(archive.o):(.t
> > ext+0x3f4): undefined reference to `filename_ncmp'
> 
> 
> filename_ncmp is in libiberty.a, so I don't understand why you are getting
> these unresolved externals.  Perhaps your libiberty.a is from an old
> distribution?

I am using the version of libliberty.a shipped with msys as part of MinGW. I reinstalled all of MinGW and
Msys with

	Mingw-get upgrade --reinstall --recursive

to use the latest versions available. Then libliberty.a (in C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\lib) has a file 
datestamp as of Jan 16, 2010, with a file size of 344kB. Supposedly this is outdated.

Notably, while libbfd.a is available in the MinGW library folder, liberty.a is not which is 
why I linked the version in the msys folder.

Is it thus possible that bfd & liberty in MinGW/Msys do not fit together?

Many thanks again,
J.