From: Jacek Caban <jacek@codeweavers.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] winegcc: Support -delayload on binutils mingw target.
Message-Id: <597885fe-4899-422e-447e-7f5186676699@codeweavers.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 19:35:11 +0200
In-Reply-To: <871rvn8vyj.fsf@wine>
References: <31817399-036a-0667-4000-f26b3b6e3d5a@codeweavers.com> <871rvn8vyj.fsf@wine>

On 10/8/19 10:47 AM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Jacek Caban <jacek@codeweavers.com> writes:
>
>> Emulate MSVC-style delayload by creating required delay importlibs
>> from .def files on demand.
> That's not going to work for importlibs that contain object files.


Yes, that's a limitation, but Wine doesn't seem to need it.


> I also think we should be moving away from .def files, instead of
> relying more on them.


If we want to keep generating delay importlibs for mingw ld, we need to 
make it conditional on the toolchain, like:

https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2019-August/148966.html

Would you prefer something like that?


Thanks,

Jacek