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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:09:49 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Exporting symbols from a .exe
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DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > With MSVC you don't have to do anything special.  If I try --shared, the
> > executable just doesn't work.
> 
> Right, because you just created a dll ;-)
> 
> What I meant is that if you use the built-in mechanism to export
> symbols, rather than dlltool, I suspect that ld will simply not bother
> to check for symbols to export if you're not building a dll.

IIRC, isn't -shared the default.  What would happen if gcc -static were
used instead?

Earnie.

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