Re: [Mingw-users] .EXE is "not in proper format"?

[Greg C. <chi...@mi...>]

Wayne Davison wrote:
> 
> Another strange thing about ld is that, even though the README file in
> ftp://ftp.nanotech.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/snapshots/gcc-2.95.2-1
> says that I should be able to use the new -shared option to create a DLL,
> the --implib option is recognized by ld:
                        ^
I think you meant to say 'not' here

> gcc -shared -Wl,--implib,libpcre_dll.a -o libpcre.dll get.o pcre.o maketables.o
> pcreposix.o study.o
> C:\GCC\BIN\..\lib\gcc-lib\i386-mingw32msvc\2.95.2\..\..\..\..\i386-mingw32msvc\b
> in\ld.exe: unrecognized option `--implib'
> C:\GCC\BIN\MAKE.EXE: *** [libpcre.dll] Error 1

Search mailing list archives for 'out-implib'; you'll
see messages like this one:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [mingw32] Re: Beta tester for gcc-2.95.2-1
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:56:57 -0600 (CST)
From: Mumit Khan <khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU>
Reply-To: mi...@eg...
To: mi...@eg...

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Danny Smith wrote:

> --implib
> This didn't work for me:
> 	gcc -shared -Wl,--implib,libmk4dll.a -o mk4.dll $(OBJS)
> nor did this:
> 	gcc -shared -Wl,--output-lib,libmk4dll.a -o mk4.dll $(OBJS)
> But this does:
> 	gcc -shared -Wl,--out-implib,libmk4dll.a -o mk4.dll $(OBJS)
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^

Yeah, this is a unfortunate change, but DJ had decided to use --out-implib
instead, which IMO is more representative of what it is than --output-lib.

`ld --help' should list these options of course.