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From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Arnaud Charlet <charlet@adacore.com>,
	  Rafael Espindola <espindola@google.com>,
	 Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net>,
	  GCC Mailing List <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
	 Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com>
Subject: Re: plugin issues to fix (or document) before 4.5 release
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B183B92.5050107@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912032101180.12495@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Arnaud Charlet wrote:
> 
>>> Are rpaths as portable as shared libraries or do we support a host
>>> architecture that has shared libraries but no equivalent to rpath?
>> Windows (mingw) comes to mind at least.
> 
> If the hypothetical libiberty.dll were only used by cc1 etc. (not by the 
> driver), putting it in the same directory as cc1, libexecsubdir, where 
> Windows would expect to find it, should work to allow separate copies for 
> each GCC install.  Though I prefer the --whole-archive approach (with a 
> fallback of adding references to libiberty symbols or extracting the .o 
> files if we wish to support plugins on hosts without --whole-archive or 
> equivalent).

  Has anyone tested plugins on windows yet?  (I haven't, but I'll find some
time to give it a bit of basic testing during stage 4.)

    cheers,
      DaveK

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-03 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-30  6:05 Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-12-02 22:17 ` Rafael Espindola
2009-12-03  7:37   ` Arnaud Charlet
2009-12-03  8:42     ` Dave Korn
2009-12-03 21:03     ` Joseph S. Myers
2009-12-03 22:12       ` Dave Korn [this message]
2009-12-03 22:16         ` Kai Tietz

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