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

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

On Oct 04, 2016 at 09:20 AM, Jannick wrote:
> > > From: Keith Marshall <kei...@us...>
> > > Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 23:15:42 +0100
> > >
> > > > Thanks - agree. However, this package comes along with the implied
> > > > dependency to libintl-8.dll which, in general, I wanted to avoid.
> > >
> > > You'll need to provide a SSCCE, to help me understand where that
> > > dependency arises; I'm not seeing it in my build trees, for either
> > > the distributed libbfd.a or libiberty.a, (when inspected using
> > > "objdump -x ... | grep -i dll" -- not that I'd really expect it to
> > > show up, within a static library, until the linker finds a symbol
> > > dependency which needs the DLL in question).
> 
> Sure. Compile main.c below with
> 
> 	mingw32-gcc main.c -o t.exe -lbfd -liberty -lintl -lz
> 
> to see that t.exe is dependent on libintl-8.dll.

I should refine my objective which is why to exclude the intl dependency: My
intention is to produce a stand-alone executable, i.e. an executable with
references to pure Windows dlls only which are available on - hopefully -
every Windows machine; I guess this means '-static' in c lingo. 

Now, after saying 'set PATH=' I discovered that t.exe (compiled with '
mingw32-gcc main.c -o t.exe -lbfd -liberty -lintl -lz ') depends on another
non-Windows dll (corresponding to libiconv.a). I amended this by linking
with '-static' and including '-liconv', i.e.

	mingw32-gcc.exe main.c -o t.exe -static -lbfd -liberty -lintl
-liconv -lz

which produces a 'stand-alone executable'.

BTW: Is there an easy standard *one-step* approach to determine the complete
dependency graph of (non-Windows) libraries to be linked with given the
'root libraries' which are linked in the first place? In the example
above/below that would mean that the libraries 'libiberty.a', 'libintl.a',
'libiconv.a' and 'libz.a' are spit out somehow given the root library
'libbfd.a'.

As a side remark, compiling the GNU binutils package from scratch with an
initial 

	./configure --disable-nls

I could turn off the dependency on intl.

> <main.c>
> #define PACKAGE "your-program-name"
> #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.2.3"
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <bfd.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char** argv)
> {
>     bfd_init();
> 
>     char* fn=argv[0];
>     printf("exe: '%s'\n", fn);
> 
>     bfd* file = bfd_openr(fn, 0);
> 
>     if (!file)
>         return 1;
> 
>     if (bfd_check_format(file, bfd_object))
>         printf("object file\n");
>     else
>         printf("not object file\n");
> 
>     bfd_close(file);
> 
>     return 0;
> }
> </main.c>

Thanks,
J.