Re: plugin issues to fix (or document) before 4.5 release

[Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com>]

2009/12/3 Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>:
> 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
>
>

No, we are testing at the moment the different new optimizations of
gcc. The plugin feature is on our todo list.

Cheers,
Kai

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