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From: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb•net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: msysgit@googlegroups•com,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Embed an application manifest on MinGW
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:56:47 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE8152F.3010903@cesarb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vfwnsdwqf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Em 02-06-2011 13:27, Junio C Hamano escreveu:
> Does the output from $WINDRES define any external symbol the rest of the
> code can refer to?  If so, you could throw resource.o into one of the .a
> file and make sure that the symbol is referred to from main(); perhaps the
> definition of main in compat/mingw.h can refer to it.

Unfortunately no:

$ i686-pc-mingw32-nm compat/win32/resource.o
00000000 d .rsrc

The only thing it has is the .rsrc section.

I could perhaps create a dummy C file with a dummy variable, compile it, 
and use incremental linking (ld -r) to bolt both object files together. 
I am not sure this hack wouldn't be uglier than the Makefile changes.

Another possibility would be a linker script (like /usr/lib/libc.so on 
modern distributions). This might be the most elegant option if it 
works. I will have to take a look on how it works to see if it is a 
viable alternative.

> If you can do that, you wouldn't need any change to the Makefile other
> than the rule to build compat/win32/resource.o and conditionally add that
> object to LIB_OBJS, perhaps like this (obviously untested as I do not have
> access to windows boxes).

You do not need access to Windows boxes, you can always use Wine ;-) 
(msysgit even has a script to open a shell under Wine with everything 
set up).

-- 
Cesar Eduardo Barros
cesarb@cesarb•net
cesar.barros@gmail•com

      reply	other threads:[~2011-06-02 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-02 10:35 [PATCH v2] Embed an application manifest on MinGW Cesar Eduardo Barros
2011-06-02 14:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2011-06-02 16:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-02 22:56   ` Cesar Eduardo Barros [this message]

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