RE: [ros-dev] msvcrt/crtdll "merge"

[Ge van Geldorp]

>   From: Gunnar Dalsnes
>
>  I made some changes so neither crtdll/msvcrt import from self 
>  anymore. Its strange that the linker is not smart enough to
>  resolve symbols without having to import from self, but it
>  could be "by design".
>  
>  The linker is crazy, because it does not complain when you export 
>  non-existing symbols/functions. Anyone who calls these functions
>  will crash in mysterious ways (been there). The bug might be
>  triggered by the option --enable-stdcall-fixup??? (just guessing) 
I think the problem is that gcc implicitly adds "-lmsvcrt" to its command
line. So if you export a non-existing function the linker will just import
it from libmsvcrt.a. There probably is a gcc option to turn the implicit
addition of "-lmsvcrt" (and other standard libs) off.

Gé van Geldorp.