>> Please provide exact steps what you did to detect that it is not used. > > 1. Download the latest SVN revision from > http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/branches/linker/ > (revision 3065 if I remeber correctly) and trunk FPC update as well > > 2. After I compared current trunk and branch version I have noticed that > they are practically the same, except the > enabled directive and last added hash class in cclasses.pas (which was not > used), I have enabled directive INTERNALLINKER ({ $define INTERNALLINKER} > ) > to trung subversion. > > 3. Rrename LD.EXE to LD.BAK > 4. Clean and build all trunk SVN reslease by ...FPC/make clean all > 5. Install: ...FPC/make install > 6. Compile example I sent from mantis issue 4922: > >>fpc -Sd demo.lpr > Free Pascal Compiler version 2.1.1 [2006/03/28] for i386 > Copyright (c) 1993-2005 by Florian Klaempfl > Target OS: Win32 for i386 > Compiling demo.lpr > Linking demo.exe > Error: Util ld.exe not found, switching to external linking > Error: C:\pp\bin\i386-Win32\ppc386.exe returned an error exitcode (normal > if > you did not specify a source file to be compiled) > >> The -Xi is only needed for SVN trunk. For the linker branch it is >> enabled >> by default. > > I assumed that allowing directive will automatically use linternal linker. > However, in this case, without explicitly adding -Xi whas unable to link. > Please specify what else should be changed to achieve that behavior.
If you want to work with development code i think it is better to find out it yourself what is going wrong. For me it works on all development systems that i use. > Executable (of example from upper wrote steps) linkined by internal linker > is 5 times larger than linked with GNU linker (suppose debugger symbols > again, which BTW can not be stripped by strip utility). Please explain > cause The problem with strip is already fixed and merged even to 2.0.3. I think you should do better research yourself first before immediatly asking for explaination. This is asking for explaination is exactly the reason why the -Xi switch is not documented or publicly announced. > of it and tasks ware on your list to produce final version of internal > linker. There is no todo list and i can never give timelines because my time is too limited. > Is there a possibilitie to currently produce smaller executable with > internal linker? It already does, especially with debuginfo included, see below. The lazarus.exe is with the internallinker, the lazarus1.exe using ld. -rwxrwxrwx 1 PVreman mkgroup-l-d 38997687 Mar 29 10:11 lazarus.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 PVreman mkgroup-l-d 64411405 Mar 29 09:56 lazarus1.exe _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
