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Re: what can link.exe do that cygwin32-ld can't ?
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: what can link.exe do that cygwin32-ld can't ?
- From: cgf at bbc dot com (Chris Faylor)
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 16:00:46 GMT
- Organization: Boston Business Computing, Ltd.
- References: <01BC9047.8464FD60@sos>
- Reply-To: cgf at bbc dot com
In article <01BC9047.8464FD60@sos>,
Sergey Okhapkin <sos@prospect.com.ru> wrote:
>Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> and if so, does this fix makeing .reloc dll's & exe's
>> with B18?
>>
>> Doesn't that have more to do with running ld and dlltool multiple
>> times?
>
>Three-pass linking is very slow :-( For example, while building cygwin.dll
>with full debug info, every ld pass tooks more than 1 minute on my P133/32M
>NT4.0. The ld.exe process takes about 10M memory while running! It's
>difficult to debug the stuff with long build times...
That's for sure. I've been spending a fair amount of time with cygwin
stuff and the last link step on my dual P90 system is maddeningly slow.
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