On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:45:40 -0700, Viktor Kutuzov
<vkutuzov@accesssoftek.com> wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have started working to make gold build and work for mingw (Windows).
There are 4 areas need to get changed:
1. The plug-in shared libraries will be plug-in DLLs. This one is easy
and
straight forward.
2. Windows memory mapping doesn't fit well the used memory mapping.
Mingw
does not support mmap/munmap. I think of extracting memory mapping to a
separate set of classes (one multi-platform abstract base class and 2
platform-specific implementation classes).
3. Gathering read is not supported on Windows (unless we want to use
overlapped I/O). I think of implementing a Windows-specific readv based
on
a regular read for now. Later we can make it better if we will want to.
4. Make files to add a new mingw configuration. This one is also easy
and
straight forward.
Does anybody else work on this?
Does anybody else interesting in gold for Windows?
Is there a better idea how to do this?
Cheers,
Viktor
Last time I asked I was answered that GOLD was very specific to elf and
when I read announcment :
"gold only supports ELF targets such as GNU/Linux and other free
operating systems. gold does not support Windows. There is no
expectation that gold will ever support anything other than ELF
targets."
But I like this quote from Marc Twain : They did not know it was
impossible, so they did it!