On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, David Malcolm wrote: > > Substantially I'm writing just to ask: > > Can GCC plugins run on a windows build of GCC compiler (MinGW) ? > > I suspect the answer is "you're the first person to try this in a > while; some things may need fixing" - but that's a guess :)
If it's Windows host, the answer is: plugin support relies on dlopen, and on -rdynamic for plugins to access symbols from cc1/cc1plus. No doubt it would be possible to add Windows host support, but it would require someone with a thorough understanding of the Windows DLL model and how it differs from ELF shared libraries to come up with and implement an appropriate design for Windows-host plugins in GCC. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
