• Martin Storsjö's avatar
    configure: Strip ordinals from mingw generated def files · eb7018d2
    Martin Storsjö authored
    The def files are used for generating import libraries for
    other toolchains (in particular, for generating import libraries
    for MSVC for DLLs built with mingw).
    
    The def files produced by mingw/gcc contains ordinals for each
    exported function. When MSVC tools generate import libraries
    from such a def file, MSVC links to the DLL by the ordinals
    instead of linking by name.
    
    Since the def files aren't maintained by hand, the ordinal
    numbers are assigned (more or less) randomly and any caller
    linking to the libs by ordinals will break as soon as the libraries
    export more/fewer functions.
    
    Therefore, strip out the ordinals from the generated def files,
    to make users link to the libraries by name.
    
    Callers linking to the DLLs using the gcc provided import library
    link by name as they should.
    Signed-off-by: 's avatarMartin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
    eb7018d2
configure 115 KB