From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Splitting cygwin.dll up into chunks 22 Jan 1997 10:34:30 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701221225.EAA19645.cygnus.gnu-win32@rtl.cygnus.com> Content-Type: text Original-To: emarshal@common.net (Edward S. Marshall) Original-Cc: grantl@deerinet.nb.ca, gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: from "Edward S. Marshall" at Jan 16, 97 12:20:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Length: 1030 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Edward S. Marshall wrote: > > As an alternative approach, has anyone considered breaking cygwin.dll into > functional portions, i.e. groups of functions which are functionally > dependant upon each other are broken into separate dll's? [...] In an ideal world, I think I would like to break up the cygwin.dll into the following smaller dlls: * UNIX compatibility syscalls * libc * libm * libgcc2 functions removed and left in libgcc2.a Unfortunately, dlltool needs to be worked on some more before this is really doable. There would still be a lot of complicated dependencies between the split up dlls since libc uses the Unix layer. Also, as other people have noted, although executables in the beta 17.1 release were stripped before packaging, stripping the dll results in an invalid cygwin.dll so I had to leave the debugging info in it. (Most of the 3.5 MB is debugging info). Strip needs to be fixed to allow safe stripping the dlls. For now, building without -g will have to do... -- Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".