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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:47:32 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
To: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
Cc: gerrit DOT haase AT t-online DOT de, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: python 2.0, cygwin & readline - undefined symbols
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In-Reply-To: <004e01c0aad8$470e20e0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:38:56PM +1100
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Rob,

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:38:56PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> I haven't tryed python, so take this with a  grain of salt:
> 
> Gerrit, can you successfully build and link .dlls? The -s option to ld
> is "-s, --strip-all             Strip all symbols"
> 
> I suspect that that may interfere with .dll's, because they _need_ a
> exported symbol list to allow them to be loaded and linked to by name
> (as opposed to ordinal).

I strip DLLs (including cygwin1.dll) all the time without any ill
effect.  AFAICT, striping DLLs do not affect the symbols that they
export.

Jason

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