On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:31:09 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Ok, fair enough, I should have phrase this split as "Microsoft toolchain" and > "everything else". The point is that linking is vastly different on Windows > than on other platforms. Our efforts to force "lib" to behave as "ar" etc was > far-fetched to begin with. And to fully support static libraries, we need to > separate the static linking into several steps, running ld, objcopy and then > finally ar There is no correspondence to of this at all with the Microsoft > toolchain, and trying to shoehorn this in is just going to make matters worse. > > I'll rename the split according to toolchain and not platform. (And then I > think this will actually help Julian, since we'll push the microsoft > strangeness away in a separate file.) Sounds OK to you then? That sounds good to me, thanks! ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17987#issuecomment-1962063986
