From: cgf@bbc.com (Chris Faylor) Subject: Re: what can link.exe do that cygwin32-ld can't ? 14 Jul 1997 10:10:52 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: References: <01BC9047.8464FD60@sos> Reply-To: cgf@bbc.com X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test57 (27 Apr 97) Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v1.28 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com In article <01BC9047.8464FD60@sos>, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: >Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> and if so, does this fix makeing .reloc dll's & exe's >> with B18? >> >> Doesn't that have more to do with running ld and dlltool multiple >> times? > >Three-pass linking is very slow :-( For example, while building cygwin.dll >with full debug info, every ld pass tooks more than 1 minute on my P133/32M >NT4.0. The ld.exe process takes about 10M memory while running! It's >difficult to debug the stuff with long build times... That's for sure. I've been spending a fair amount of time with cygwin stuff and the last link step on my dual P90 system is maddeningly slow. -- http://www.bbc.com/ cgf@bbc.com "Strange how unreal VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be." - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".