Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: "Xavier" Subject: problem with dlltools / gcc -shared Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:08:00 +0100 Organization: LUSIS Lines: 46 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.1.37.98 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035893153 5113 81.1.37.98 (29 Oct 2002 12:05:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:05:53 +0000 (UTC) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Hi there I try to compile a dll that exports 17000+ symbols during the creation of the .lib archive it creates those temporary .o files but it looks like it goes over the allowed number of files in the same directory or somethings around thoses lines (the / tree is on an NTFS partition) >dlltool -d wxmsw233.def -l libwxmsw233.dll.a dlltool: bfd_open failure while opening stub file : ds10732.o >ls -l | wc -l 17041 gcc -shared generates a core dump in this particular case Question : is there an easy work-around or should i build the .lib archive by small blocks i see there is an option for dltool to keep .o files but what about one that deletes then after addition to the archive ? System used : /home> uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 TEMPO7 1.3.13(0.62/3/2) 2002-10-13 23:15 i686 unknown (same pbs with a 1.3.14-1) /home> gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/specs Configured with: /netrel/src/gcc-3.2-1/configure --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,ja va --enable-libgcj --enable-threads=posix --with-system-zlib --enable-nls -- with out-included-gettext --enable-interpreter --disable-sjlj-exceptions --disabl e-ve rsion-specific-runtime-libs --enable-shared --build=i686-pc-linux --host=i68 6-pc -cygwin --target=i686-pc-cygwin --enable-haifa --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/ usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib --includedir=/nonexistent/include --libe xecd ir=/usr/sbin Thread model: posix gcc version 3.2 20020818 (prerelease) Xavier -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/