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authorThomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme@arm.com>2016-07-15 17:49:08 +0100
committerThomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme@arm.com>2016-07-15 17:50:48 +0100
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Add support for creating ELF import libraries
2016-07-15 Thomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme@arm.com> bfd/ * elf-bfd.h (elf_backend_filter_implib_symbols): Declare backend hook. (_bfd_elf_filter_global_symbols): Declare. * elf.c (_bfd_elf_filter_global_symbols): New function. * elflink.c (elf_filter_global_symbols): Likewise. (elf_output_implib): Likewise. (bfd_elf_final_link): Call above function, failing if it does. * elfxx-target.h (elf_backend_filter_implib_symbols): Define macro and default it to NULL. (elf_backend_copy_indirect_symbol): Fix spacing. (elf_backend_hide_symbol): Likewise. (elfNN_bed): Initialize elf_backend_filter_implib_symbols backend hook. include/ * bfdlink.h (struct bfd_link_info): Declare new ldscript_def and out_implib_bfd fields. 2016-07-15 Thomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme@arm.com> Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> ld/ * emultempl/elf32.em (gld${EMULATION_NAME}_after_open): Open import library file for writing and initialize implib_bfd field of link_info structure. * emultempl/pe.em (pe_implib_filename): Remove variable declaration. (OPTION_IMPLIB_FILENAME): Remove macro definition. (gld${EMULATION_NAME}_add_options): Remove --out-implib option. (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_list_options): Likewise. (gld${EMULATION_NAME}_handle_option): Likewise. (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_finish): Use command_line.out_implib_filename instead of pe_implib_filename. * emultempl/pep.em (pep_implib_filename): Remove variable declaration. (OPTION_IMPLIB_FILENAME): Remove enumerator. (gld${EMULATION_NAME}_add_options): Remove --out-implib option. (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_list_options): Likewise. (gld${EMULATION_NAME}_handle_option): Likewise. (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_finish): Use command_line.out_implib_filename instead of pep_implib_filename. * ld.h (args_type): Declare new out_implib_filename field. * ld.texinfo (--out-implib): Move documentation to arch-independent part and rephrase to apply to ELF targets. * ldexp.c (exp_fold_tree_1): Set ldscript_def field to 1 for symbols defined in linker scripts. * ldlex.h (enum option_values): Declare new OPTION_OUT_IMPLIB enumerator. * lexsup.c (ld_options): Add entry for new --out-implib switch. (parse_args): Handle OPTION_OUT_IMPLIB case. * testsuite/ld-elf/elf.exp (Generate empty import library): New test. (Generate import library): Likewise. * testsuite/ld-elf/implib.s: Likewise. * testsuite/ld-elf/implib.rd: New file. * testsuite/ld-elf/empty-implib.out: Likewise
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+Changes in 2.28:
+
+* Extended the --out-implib=<file> option, previously restricted to x86 PE
+ targets, to any ELF based target. This allows the generation of an import
+ library for an ELF executable, which can then be used by another application
+ to link against the executable.
+
Changes in 2.27:
* Add a configure option --enable-relro to decide whether -z relro should