From: Viktor Kutuzov <vkutuzov@accesssoftek.com>
To: Vincent R. <forumer@smartmobili.com>
Cc: <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [GOLD] Heads up. Gold for mingw.
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6FC20D4B803747ABAD801CC7A69A3E47@andreic6e7fe55> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63423ce0c19f1c0c56f69d7e941a0d64@mail.smartmobili.com>
> "gold only supports ELF targets such as GNU/Linux and other free
> operating systems. gold does not support Windows. There is no
> expectation that gold will ever support anything other than ELF
> targets."
That's fine.
I'm targeting the cross-build scenario. Like gold itself is running on Windows to make an elf file for some other platform.
-Viktor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent R." <forumer@smartmobili.com>
To: "Viktor Kutuzov" <vkutuzov@accesssoftek.com>
Cc: <binutils@sourceware.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [GOLD] Heads up. Gold for mingw.
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:45:40 -0700, Viktor Kutuzov
> <vkutuzov@accesssoftek.com> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have started working to make gold build and work for mingw (Windows).
>> There are 4 areas need to get changed:
>>
>> 1. The plug-in shared libraries will be plug-in DLLs. This one is easy
> and
>> straight forward.
>>
>> 2. Windows memory mapping doesn't fit well the used memory mapping.
> Mingw
>> does not support mmap/munmap. I think of extracting memory mapping to a
>> separate set of classes (one multi-platform abstract base class and 2
>> platform-specific implementation classes).
>>
>> 3. Gathering read is not supported on Windows (unless we want to use
>> overlapped I/O). I think of implementing a Windows-specific readv based
> on
>> a regular read for now. Later we can make it better if we will want to.
>>
>> 4. Make files to add a new mingw configuration. This one is also easy
> and
>> straight forward.
>>
>> Does anybody else work on this?
>> Does anybody else interesting in gold for Windows?
>> Is there a better idea how to do this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Viktor
>
> Last time I asked I was answered that GOLD was very specific to elf and
> when I read announcment :
>
> "gold only supports ELF targets such as GNU/Linux and other free
> operating systems. gold does not support Windows. There is no
> expectation that gold will ever support anything other than ELF
> targets."
>
> But I like this quote from Marc Twain : They did not know it was
> impossible, so they did it!
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-06 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-13 15:09 [PATCH] gold: add cast to gold_unreachable to workaround gcc giving invalid "no return statement" warnings Mikolaj Zalewski
2009-08-14 8:34 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-08-14 9:28 ` Mikolaj Zalewski
2009-08-14 9:36 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-08-31 21:49 ` [PATCH] Gold: Added R_ARM_ABS8 relocation Viktor Kutuzov
2009-08-31 23:52 ` Gold: Testsuite Viktor Kutuzov
2009-09-01 0:46 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-09-01 1:02 ` Viktor Kutuzov
2009-09-01 2:10 ` Ian Lance Taylor
[not found] ` <6AE1604EE3EC5F4296C096518C6B77EEE56FBF60@mail.accesssoftek.com>
2009-09-02 1:31 ` Viktor Kutuzov
2009-09-01 0:56 ` [PATCH] Gold: Added R_ARM_ABS8 relocation Ian Lance Taylor
2009-09-01 19:53 ` [PATCH Take 2] " Viktor Kutuzov
2009-09-01 21:24 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-09-02 1:30 ` [PATCH] Gold: Added R_ARM_ABS8 relocation unit test Viktor Kutuzov
2009-09-16 0:23 ` [PATCH] Gold: Added R_ARM_GOT_PREL relocation and unit tests Viktor Kutuzov
2009-09-16 1:00 ` [Gold] Heads up. Working on interworking Viktor Kutuzov
2009-10-06 21:46 ` [GOLD] Heads up. Gold for mingw Viktor Kutuzov
2009-10-06 22:02 ` Vincent R.
2009-10-06 22:26 ` Viktor Kutuzov [this message]
2009-10-06 22:06 ` Matt Rice
2009-10-07 15:31 ` [PATCH] Gold: Added R_ARM_GOT_PREL relocation and unit tests Ian Lance Taylor
[not found] ` <6AE1604EE3EC5F4296C096518C6B77EEE56FBF62@mail.accesssoftek.com>
2009-09-03 23:26 ` [PATCH, Take 2] Gold: Added R_ARM_ABS8 relocation unit test Viktor Kutuzov
2009-09-27 7:35 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-09-29 23:30 ` Viktor Kutuzov
2009-09-29 23:40 ` Ian Lance Taylor
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