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Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 17:32:07 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
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To: Garfield Lewis <galewis AT ca DOT ibm DOT com>
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Subject: Re: GCC for Windows help
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Garfield Lewis wrote:

<snip>

> 
> On 8 May 2003 at 14:39, "Garfield Lewis" <galewis AT ca DOT ibm DOT com> wrote:
> 
>>Yes, been there done that... The problem is not building the dll it's
>>running it. Since their linker strips the relocations out of the dll then
>>if the dll is loaded by any proces that happens to not have the preferred
>>address free then the dll will not load because cannot fixup the address
>>within the dll. It is a stupid default for Windows but seems to be the
> 
> case
> 
>>here. The --emit-relocs option seems to be what I need, however, so far
> 
> all
> 
>>my info indicates that this only works for ELF binaries. Using the
>>---enable-auto-image-base is a workaround for now because it chooses an
>>address other than 0x10000000 as the preferred load address but it to
> 
> will
> 
>>fail if the above happens, however less likely.


Sounds like something that the rebase package could help you with...

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