> Thanks for doing that! Your post is just a couple of days old, let's > see if we get a reply on that.
Microsoft updated documentation [1] and clarified that ASLR cannot be disabled for Arm64 targets. Because ASLR can't be disabled on ARM, ARM64, or ARM64EC architectures, > /DYNAMICBASE:NO isn't supported for these targets. Thanks Niyas [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/dynamicbase?view=msvc-170 On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 at 02:17, Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 10:21:04AM +0100, Niyas Sait wrote: > > The following error occurs: > > > > LINK : fatal error LNK1246: '/DYNAMICBASE:NO' not compatible with 'ARM64' > > target machine; link without '/DYNAMICBASE:NO > > Okay, that's interesting. In light of things like 7f3e17b, that may > be annoying. Perhaps newer Windows versions are able to handle that > better. I am wondering if it would be worth re-evaluating this > change, and attempt to re-enable that in environments other than > arm64. This could become interesting if we consider that there have > been talks to cut the support for a bunch of Windows versions to focus > on the newer ones only. > > > This seems to be a deliberate restriction for Arm64 targets. However, no > > references were provided. To clarify, I have posted a question [1] on the > > community channel of Visual Studio. > > Thanks for doing that! Your post is just a couple of days old, let's > see if we get a reply on that. > -- > Michael >
