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Re: Excude whole libs when building w32 dlls with -export-all [Refresh]
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Cc: cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:15:44 -0400
- Subject: Re: Excude whole libs when building w32 dlls with -export-all [Refresh]
- References: <20020520225008.84334.qmail@web14501.mail.yahoo.com>
FWIW, it appears that this patch was committed on 21 May 2002.
--Chuck
Danny Smith wrote:
> The previous post had incorrect subject heading. This is a repost. Sorry.
>
> This is a refresh of:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-04/msg00472.html
>
> The patch allows exclusion of symbols in specified libs (optionally all
> libs) from export table when producing dll's using ld --shared.
> Listing of symbol names in a .def file forces those specific symbols
> to be included even if they are contained in excluded libs.
>
>
>
> Can this be reviewed?
>
> The diff updated to current CVS is attached.
>
> 2002-05-21 Danny Smith <dannysmith@users.sourceforge.net>
>
> * emultempl/pe.em (OPTION_EXCLUDE_LIBS): Add new define.
> (longopts): Add new option --exclude-libs.
> (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_list_options): Give quick help about it.
> (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_parse_args): Use it.
> * pe-dll.h (pe_dll_add_excludes): Add second param to prototype.
> * pe-dll.c (exclude_list_struct): Add field type to distinguish
> symbols from whole archives.
> (pe_dll_add_excludes): Set excludes->type.
> (auto_export): Add new variable libname and set to
> archive basename if abfd. Use it when filtering default and
> user-specified libarary excludes. Let string "ALL" mean all libs
> when filtering user-specified libs.
> * ld.texinfo: Document --exclude-libs.