Opened 8 years ago
Closed 5 years ago
#214 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Consider installing OMF type import libs along side aout style ones.
| Reported by: | Dave Yeo | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | other | Version: | |
| Severity: | low | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | dave.r.yeo@…, lgrosenthal@… |
Description
I've updated Doodles ScreenSaver so the cairo based modules are linked to the RPM/YUM installed cairo2.dll.
Needed changes are having an OMF type export lib, cairo_dll.lib and a small patch to cairo/cairo.h to force cdecl calling convention, attached.
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Change History (4)
by , 8 years ago
| Attachment: | cairo_h.patch added |
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comment:1 by , 8 years ago
| Summary: | Doodles ScreenSaver can not use the installed Cairo as is → Doodles ScreenSaver can not link to installed Cairo as is |
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comment:2 by , 8 years ago
| Summary: | Doodles ScreenSaver can not link to installed Cairo as is → Consider installing OMF type import libs along side aout style ones. |
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comment:3 by , 5 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
it's true linking is a bit faster. but given the overhead of having .a and .lib doesn't qualify it. We would have to change to many tools to do it while building. And to be honest we don't have the resources to do so.
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Simpler just to define before including cairo.h so patch dropped.
There is still the question of whether OMF type import libs should be installed along side the aout import libs.
Not only does it simplify linking for compilers besides GCC, but they have traditionally been included or been easily generated to speed up GCC linking when using -Zomf.
I'll change the title to reflect this