Corruption message after updating binutils (both Cygwin/MingW)

Angelo Graziosi angelo.graziosi@alice.it
Tue Mar 18 15:29:00 GMT 2014


A little correction...

Il 18/03/2014 12:49, Angelo Graziosi ha scritto:
> Just for completeness... the following occurs on Cygwin64 (I don't have
> Cygwin32)
>
> After the upgrading to binutils-2.24.51-1 and
> mingw64-*-binutils-2.24.0.0.5a026fc-1, rebuilding some my applications
> [*], I see this message (and similar for i686-pc-mingw32,
> x86_64-w64-mingw32, x86_64-pc-cygwin):
>
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.8.2/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld:
> i686-w64-mingw32-bounce.exe: .rsrc merge failure: corrupt .rsrc section
>
> In any case, the executable is created and seems to work.
>
> Reverting the binutils packages to previous version, the message goes
> away...

The above occurs for i686-w64-mingw32, x86_64-w64-mingw32, 
x86_64-pc-cygwin but NOT for i686-pc-mingw32 whose binutils have not 
been upgraded recently...


>
> Ciao,
>   Angelo.

> ---
> [*] The command line I use is, for example,
>
> windres bounce.rc -O coff -o ../modules/bounce.res && gfortran -Wall
> -mwindows -J ../modules ../../src/windows_interface_modules.f90
> ../../src/windows_dialog_modules.f90 bounce.f90 ../modules/bounce.res -o
> bounce.out
>
> or
>
>   i686-w64-mingw32-windres bounce.rc -O coff -o ../modules/bounce.res &&
> i686-w64-mingw32-gfortran -static -Wall -mwindows -J ../modules
> ../../src/windows_interface_modules.f90
> ../../src/windows_dialog_modules.f90 bounce.f90 ../modules/bounce.res -o
> i686-w64-mingw32-bounce
>
> but the same happens for i686-pc-mingw32 and x86_64-w64-mingw32.

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