#12499: Support multiple library import libs -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: Phyx- | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.4.1 Component: Runtime System | Version: 8.0.1 (Linker) | Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: Type of failure: GHC rejects | Unknown/Multiple valid program | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Changes (by RyanGlScott): * cc: RyanGlScott (added) -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12499#comment:2> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

#12499: Support multiple library import libs -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: Phyx- | Owner: Phyx- Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.4.1 Component: Runtime System | Version: 8.0.1 (Linker) | Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: Type of failure: GHC rejects | Unknown/Multiple valid program | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Phab:D3513 Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by Ben Gamari <ben@…>): In [changeset:"93489cd3b4c1b0d17506a12a9b964c0082ddb7a8/ghc" 93489cd3/ghc]: {{{ #!CommitTicketReference repository="ghc" revision="93489cd3b4c1b0d17506a12a9b964c0082ddb7a8" Better import library support for Windows The import library support added for 7.10.3 was only a partial one. This support was predicated on using file extensions to determine whether or not a library was an import library. It also couldn't handle libraries with multiple dll pointers. This is a rewrite of that patch and fully integrating it into the normal archive parsing and loading routines. This solves a host of issues, among others allowing us to finally use `-lgcc_s`. This also fixes a problem with our previous implementation, where we just loaded the DLL and moved on. Doing this had the potential of using the wrong symbol at resolve time. Say a DLL already loaded (A.dll) has symbol a exported (dependency of another dll perhaps). We find an import library `B.lib` explicitly defining an export of `a`. we load `B.dll` but this gets put after `A.dll`, at resolve time we would use the value from `A` instead of `B` which is what we wanted. Test Plan: ./valide and make test TEST=13606 Reviewers: austin, bgamari, erikd, simonmar Reviewed By: bgamari Subscribers: rwbarton, RyanGlScott, thomie, #ghc_windows_task_force GHC Trac Issues: #13606, #12499, #12498 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3513 }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12499#comment:4> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler