Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:47:32 -0500 From: Jason Tishler To: Robert Collins Cc: gerrit.haase@t-online.de, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: python 2.0, cygwin & readline - undefined symbols Message-ID: <20010312104732.E1184@dothill.com> Mail-Followup-To: Robert Collins , gerrit.haase@t-online.de, cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3AAC3BD5.11477.20D2F4F@localhost>; <3AACA38C.20966.3A253D4@localhost> <004e01c0aad8$470e20e0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <004e01c0aad8$470e20e0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:38:56PM +1100 Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp. Rob, On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:38:56PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > I haven't tryed python, so take this with a grain of salt: > > Gerrit, can you successfully build and link .dlls? The -s option to ld > is "-s, --strip-all Strip all symbols" > > I suspect that that may interfere with .dll's, because they _need_ a > exported symbol list to allow them to be loaded and linked to by name > (as opposed to ordinal). I strip DLLs (including cygwin1.dll) all the time without any ill effect. AFAICT, striping DLLs do not affect the symbols that they export. Jason -- Jason Tishler Director, Software Engineering Phone: +1 (732) 264-8770 x235 Dot Hill Systems Corp. Fax: +1 (732) 264-8798 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: Jason.Tishler@dothill.com Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple