compile question about dll of windows

Thu Apr 10 22:48:00 GMT 2003

> > J-F>> I also tried the linker directly:
> > J-F>> ld -shared -o libgcj.dll --out-implib libgcj.a --export-all-symbols
> *.o
> > 
> > Are the two variations equivalent or does gcj do some additional
> > stuff under the covers?
>> Use "gcj -v" and see.
>> > Is invoking ld directly a viable way of doing
> > this or do we <i>have</i> to use gcj? And if so, why?
>> Because if you use ld directly rather than invoking it with gcj we
> won't support you. The whole idea of having gcj do the work is that
> we can be sure the options passed to ld are correct.

Right. If there are any special options that need to be passed, the
-Wl,--option syntax should be used. 
I think I may have missed something. Is the direct invocation of ld an attempt
to workaround bug with long commandline inputs being piped fom driver to ld?
Danny
> Andrew. 

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