Re: Excude whole libs when building w32 dlls with -export-all [Refresh]

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

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.