Re: "Re: libbfd, libtool & Win32" and "Re: Building a MinGW GLib etc..."

[Guido Draheim]

Max Bowsher wrote:
> Guido Draheim wrote:
>
> > How old may a gcc/binutils pair be? My oldest crosscompilers
> > are gcc 2.95.3 and ld --version reports 2.11.90.8. And for
> > all I know, these are in fact the oldest versions around,
> > no one want to go back beyond, I guess.
> >
> > Is that enough, Max?
>
>
> Test:
>
> $ echo '__declspec(dllexport) void foo () {}' > foo.c
> $ gcc -shared foo.c -o foo.dll
> $ objdump -p foo.dll | fgrep -A 5 Characteristics

The real problem is in a `gcc -shared foo.c -o foo.dll -lz`
and whether gcc can find the zlib dll, and link it even
when no .dll.a is available, with just the dll being present.

The zlib is probably a good example - quite some portable
software makes use of it, including my http://zziplib.sf.net