Hi again!
I don't find it (libgcc.a). the closest I find is gcc.lib on my gcc 2.6.3 setup at work. I am not at home right now, so I can't check.
That's it. Since DOS restricts file names to 8 letters, emx names libraries gcc.* rather than libgcc.*. But I thought that the suffix would be .a, not .lib, or there are both versions, denoting different lib file formats (perhaps elf and a.out?).
Hu? libgcc.* is still well within the DOS / FAT conventions, isn't it :-) But, anyway, I have both gcc.lib and gcc.a, one (*.lib) is, as I understand it, for linking with *.obj files using link386 and -Zomf, the other one (*.a) for the traditional a.out and emx format.
Well, I have indeed had success with gcc 2.6.3, but not with 2.7.2 anymore. Being completely stupid I didn't just upgrade emx rts from 09a to 09b but did the wole works (2.6.3 -> 2.7.2) assuming that's a VERY GOOD THING. Maybe it wasn't. I'll restore my 2.6.3 and just put in the nwe emxrts tonight. Or, maybe I live with the separate link step until a 2.7.2 version is out?
I'm afraid these two alternatives are really the only solutions.
Oh. (seeking for cleenex).
Let's hope that somebody will create GPC 2.7.x soon.
Yes, yes. I really would do it if I just could (where are those cleenex, again?). However, I haven't even had success compiling gcc / gpc before, so I am less than optimistic. Anybody out there who'd really know what to do?
I think all these problems will disappear as soon as we will have a 2.7.x version of GPC. (But this is not my job. :-)
Well, if there is no 2.7.x in 1997, I will do the job, because I also do not like the situation as is. But I would prefer somebody else to do this, so I can concentrate on the Borland stuff.
1997? (Cleenex alert again!)
Another suggestion would be to make GPC independend of the C runtime library, but include the required stuff into gpclib.a.
Is this how g77 does it with f2c.lib?
I don't know but I could imagine. Does anybody know?
Oh -- by the way: What's the reasone for gpc/emx being >= 3 MB as opposed to 1.7 or so it was before? Is it the turbo stuff, or is it debug info that one could safely strip out?
I think it's debug info. If so, I will strip it out in the next release of binaries.
So, could I just run strip against the binaries and they'd still work?
PS: A last one: I see mail to gpc@hut.fi bouncing all the time. You too?
So do I. Does anybody know the address?
So long,
Peter
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