From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32733 invoked by alias); 20 Jun 2006 05:25:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 32723 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Jun 2006 05:25:39 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from caffeine.uwaterloo.ca (HELO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:25:37 +0000 Received: from rridge by caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca with local (Exim 4.50) id 1FsYk2-00043F-M5 for binutils@sourceware.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:25:35 -0400 To: binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [Patch/pe-coff] : Add native spelling of import lib names to dynamic lib search Message-Id: From: Ross Ridge Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:39:00 -0000 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-06/txt/msg00295.txt.bz2 Danny Smith wrote: >However, the native naming convention for these import libs is "foo.lib" >and gld_i386pe_open_dynamic_archive does not currently recognize this >name format. This means that doing something like -L/path/to/sdk -lfoo32 >could link directly to "foo32.dll", rather than find the import lib >"foo32.lib". Umm... doing something like -L/path/to/sdk -lfoo32 already works for me with ld. Am I missing something here? Ross Ridge