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([2001:e68:4074:3be9:f64d:30ff:fe63:5a5a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 68sm34846464pfk.162.2017.11.23.03.35.43 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 23 Nov 2017 03:35:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PING] Plugin support on Windows/MinGW To: Boris Kolpackov Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org References: From: JonY <10walls@gmail.com> Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:48:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jFbpv7i5Eh3Gnl9emlm5OLErFwKBl2skF" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-11/txt/msg02120.txt.bz2 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --jFbpv7i5Eh3Gnl9emlm5OLErFwKBl2skF Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8lGFeKabNwDpVAo1Td5AokVqsfgoKqPQv"; protected-headers="v1" From: JonY <10walls@gmail.com> To: Boris Kolpackov Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PING] Plugin support on Windows/MinGW References: In-Reply-To: --8lGFeKabNwDpVAo1Td5AokVqsfgoKqPQv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 941 On 11/22/2017 11:14 AM, Boris Kolpackov wrote: > JonY <10walls@gmail.com> writes: >=20 >> Is there a problem with using .so for internal libraries instead of >> "dll"... >=20 > I think not but I haven't tested it. The problem with using .so instead > of .dll is that producing this non-standard extension may not be easy > or possible depending on the build system/tool (e.g., libtool). Also, > you never know how other pieces of the system (like antivirus) will > react to a file that looks like a DLL but is called something else. >=20 >=20 Libtool shouldn't matter since it is not used to build those, and I doubt AVs would care what the filename is called. Apache on Windows uses .so plugins too. >> ... if it simplifies the code? >=20 > I don't think it simplifies that much and the potential (and unknown) > downside is significant. >=20 > Thanks for the review, > Boris >=20 I'll commit in a few days if there are no more inputs. --8lGFeKabNwDpVAo1Td5AokVqsfgoKqPQv-- --jFbpv7i5Eh3Gnl9emlm5OLErFwKBl2skF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-length: 858 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJGBAEBCAAwFiEE5QrdnbBX9Ppk4bbPcTtf4pwUXUUFAloWsmESHDEwd2FsbHNA Z21haWwuY29tAAoJEHE7X+KcFF1FCH8P/jGxUcbRv4PX04Rt9g5nPDuX4Yt+vasM HF1zOhcDzo7m0wT/KE+RGdbkL3aamU2VbDy/GfHLnXA9fXGBJyx3FFeY1twfKOEZ 6c+Ilse54SYaq2znd5pNp+Q70BZFV3+RoHWE53PTfx2uk5RiitzHqAZf1ywqq308 e+u9Q6j2PnIqpA3BhT06IfelGzsDBLt8ZDPox+hashsS2Yus6zd/BJLHOBNkddnB maE74qYgCqHYuUzU90AUh507sw4ch4KSZWyCd5dEokJ0GV5400oXCzJNP5JXlRbc RSRWATE121KD+bZXh7M/7HOLOxTsF2IQ8wV4KzuWePmgWlGKdXKs62shW+rN9M4z BYmyqunNYBhiWVovnfVSvAgGgrJWgWDS+RkImOL8ixZ+eV5e0b8OfYG3dIkk/Xpm IuVVl1aP2TORPLNxnK0bGIPaRPpRfPrMYVxeH7In68qzXmJvjjXzmSFQgCCvl737 VL2gRSBPHDSOwd4aAHZtchauNy7gj+8wMKST/rbETDGsfCCBWZdRl3g9VyoA9F+0 YOsOSLTwAHNh2orVidEMTyUo0adsy1xESeglAvnVceUNsG/+Tkx+4GbXSK6neM1+ AAfdgeY6yfGXQo+Zbi2dP1TZ2s+cUp8VcTFWCQ4Z7FVtqIAnYd89NsoyRXtX+sps WC2uTjipT0Sv =lXCB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jFbpv7i5Eh3Gnl9emlm5OLErFwKBl2skF--