GCC for Windows help

Thu May 8 21:33:00 GMT 2003

Garfield Lewis wrote:
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>> On 8 May 2003 at 14:39, "Garfield Lewis" <galewis@ca.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>Yes, been there done that... The problem is not building the dll it's
>>running it. Since their linker strips the relocations out of the dll then
>>if the dll is loaded by any proces that happens to not have the preferred
>>address free then the dll will not load because cannot fixup the address
>>within the dll. It is a stupid default for Windows but seems to be the
>> case
>>>here. The --emit-relocs option seems to be what I need, however, so far
>> all
>>>my info indicates that this only works for ELF binaries. Using the
>>---enable-auto-image-base is a workaround for now because it chooses an
>>address other than 0x10000000 as the preferred load address but it to
>> will
>>>fail if the above happens, however less likely.

Sounds like something that the rebase package could help you with...
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