Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:05:28 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 610 ************************************************** Sunday 28 August 2005 Number 610 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Building PM programs with gcc : Andreas Buening **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:43:59 +0200 From: Andreas Buening Subject: Re: Building PM programs with gcc Dave Yeo wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:09:35 +0100, Stefan.Neis at t-online.de wrote: > >> And if so should libtool be modified to add the DEF file? > > > >How his libtool relevant to generating executables? Isn't that for DLLs only? > > Libtool knows how to create a DEF file If it hasn't changed during the last years, it just creates a very dumb .def file without any further intelligence behind it. AFAIK it won't give you any benefit when you link an executable except that it will slow down the whole process significantly. ;-) > and when using libtool it seems to take care of all the compilation. Yes. It's a huge wrapper script for your compiler and linker which does lots of OS-dependent stuff. Bye, Andreas