On 29/07/2015 16:07, Bill Hoffman wrote:
Hi Bill,
On 7/29/2015 10:17 AM, Bill Somerville wrote:
Is there a reason not to look for objdump before dumpbin?
I was under the impression that dumpbin was selected first for non-MinGW
Windows builds, I have no idea if objdump works with binaries produced
by compilers other than GNU/CLang. This is why I commented about
detecting MinGW, there are mentions of a MINGW CMake system variable but
it doesn't seem to exist.
Yes, that is the problem. This is a standalone script that is run at
install time, so it does not have any information about the build
toolchain. In retrospect it should have been passed more information
about the build tool chain that was used.
This is what we want:
# dumpbin (Windows)
# objdump (MinGW on Windows)
# ldd (Linux/Unix)
# otool (Mac OSX)
There is already a documented override by setting the gp_tool variable,
that's what we do in our project since we only support MinGW on Windows
(at the moment).
Trouble is dumpbin and objdump might both be in the PATH on Windows.
You don't really know which one to use. I wonder if you found both
if you could call something on each of them with one of the binaries,
if you could figure out what tool would work better with it.
You can't decide based on one executable since dumpbin works on some and
not others, I believe the problem is with DLLs that export exactly zero
symbols which is true of the GCC support libraries.
It may be that if objdump is available it can always be used but I don't
know that for sure, also it is still slower than dumpbin even with the
patch I am proposing.
-Bill
Regards
Bill Somerville.
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