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Re: Did I find an error in the current binutils or what???
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 09:42:26AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm just trying to build the new born openssh-3.0p1 for Cygwin.
> >
> > There's a slight difference between 1.3.3 and 1.3.4 in so far as
> > __progname is defined in 1.3.4 while it wasn't in 1.3.3.
> >
> > Unfortunately, __progname isn't defined in any header file. So what
> > happens (and what should work fine in theory) is, I'm getting the
> > following message at the end of the link stage:
> >
> > Warning: resolving ___progname by linking to __imp____progname (auto-import)
>
>
> Okay, so your program (ssh) was compiled without the appropriate
> __declspec(dllimport) decorator on __progname ('cause it isn't defined in
> ANY header). Therefore, the auto-import stuff kicks in, and magically
> searchs for "__imp__" + desired_symbol. It finds it (__imp____progname).
> So far, so good.
>
>
> > Hum, the problem is that I'm getting _another_ message right after
> > the above one:
> >
> > nmth000000.o(.idata$4+0x0): undefined reference to `_nm____progname'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
>
> Except that the cygwin1.dll/libcygwin.a that you are linking against does
> not have the requisite auto-import support thunks (_nm__*). Perhaps this
> cygwin was compiled using a (very) old binutils? pre-20010802 ?
Yes. It has been cross-compiled on a Linux box. The binutils are...
uhm... compiled on 2001-07-12 so they are definitely pre-20010802.
Somehow I don't understand how that stuff is supposed to work. I'm
not a binutils expert...
Corinna
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