Hi Heinrich, On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 at 20:47, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > Am 25. April 2023 01:08:22 MESZ schrieb Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>: > >The sandbox build makes use of a small number of weak symbols. Allow these > >to be dropped when building for the PE format, since its support for weak > >symbols is poor. > > This comment does not explain the necessity of the change. Why is it really > needed? Has the compiler version in MSYS a problem?
Yes, from what I understand, PE has never really supported weak symbols properly. I'm not sure if that has changed, but it doesn't look like it. I'm hoping there is another workaround. That said, I really don't like weak symbols and I think we should use them less. [..] Regards, Simon
