Only rarely that I find something so exciting it have to share it with
this list. This set of tools, called 'apbuild', fills in a few gaps in
the GNU developer toolchain, which are quickly apparent to anyone coming
from an MSVC background:

- apgcc

  Allows you to link against an older version of glibc (similar to
defining _WIN32_WINNT on Windows) and offers some other handy fixes such
as optimizing away unneeded shared library dependencies. A pity the GNU
toolchain doesn't yet offer a handy way of specifying, in link time, the
version of the shared library you wish to link against.

- relaytool

  To whoever is familiar with MSVC Delay-Loading of DLLs, this gives
roughly the same feature (though Delay Loading is still cooler, cause a)
it shows up in the DLL dependency table in Dependency Walker and such,
and b) upon calling an unloaded function, you get an SEH exception which
you can handle, rather than an abort(), but otherwise it's better than
nothing :)

And best of all, it's free and just wrappers around GNU tools.

For more info, see:
http://www.autopackage.org/aptools.html

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