Re: Excude whole libs when building w32 dlls with -export-all [Refresh]

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 08:50:08AM +1000, Danny Smith wrote:
>The previous post had incorrect subject heading.  This is a repost. Sorry.
> 
> This is a refresh of:
>
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-04/msg00472.html
>
>The patch allows exclusion of symbols in specified libs (optionally all
>libs) from export table when producing dll's using ld --shared.
>Listing of symbol names in a .def file forces those specific symbols
>to be included even if they are contained in excluded libs.
>
>Can this be reviewed?
>
>The diff updated to current CVS is attached.
>
>2002-05-21  Danny Smith  <dannysmith@users.sourceforge.net>
>
>	* emultempl/pe.em (OPTION_EXCLUDE_LIBS): Add new define.
>	(longopts): Add new option --exclude-libs.
>	(gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_list_options): Give quick help about it.
>	(gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_parse_args): Use it.
>	* pe-dll.h (pe_dll_add_excludes): Add second param to prototype.
>	* pe-dll.c (exclude_list_struct): Add field type to distinguish
>	symbols from whole archives.
>	(pe_dll_add_excludes): Set excludes->type.
>	(auto_export): Add new variable libname and set to
> 	archive basename if abfd. Use it when filtering default and
>	user-specified libarary excludes. Let string "ALL" mean all libs
>	when filtering user-specified libs.
>	* ld.texinfo: Document --exclude-libs.

I've applied this patch (with Nick's permission).

Thanks, Danny.

cgf