* Brendon Costa wrote on Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 02:42:19AM CEST: > What platforms do we want to support? I can think of the following > categories:
> * Windows (cygwin/mingw) > As i understand the issue (I am not very familiar with this) you can't > have unresolved references in a plugin back to the GCC executable. I.e. > Building GCC with -rdynamic will not work on this platform. Do we move > most of the GCC implementation into a "library/DLL" having a "stub" > main() that just calls the library implementation. Then both the > application AND the plugins can link with this library/DLL in a way that > will work on Windows. > Or are we going for the quick solution of using -rdynamic and not > supporting this platform (Not my preferred option)? AFAIK you can fix w32 issues with DEF files. I would guess putting the bulk of GCC in a library, thus compiling it with PIC code on most systems, will hurt compiler performance rather significantly. Haven't tried it though. Cheers, Ralf
