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Re: python 2.0, cygwin & readline - undefined symbols

Rob,

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:38:56PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> I haven't tryed python, so take this with a  grain of salt:
> 
> Gerrit, can you successfully build and link .dlls? The -s option to ld
> is "-s, --strip-all             Strip all symbols"
> 
> I suspect that that may interfere with .dll's, because they _need_ a
> exported symbol list to allow them to be loaded and linked to by name
> (as opposed to ordinal).

I strip DLLs (including cygwin1.dll) all the time without any ill
effect.  AFAICT, striping DLLs do not affect the symbols that they
export.

Jason

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