dlltool import library build optimization
Ian Lance Taylor
ian@zembu.com
Wed Dec 22 16:15:00 GMT 1999
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:27:33 -0600 (CST)
From: Mumit Khan <khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU>
When building large DLLs, especially C++ ones, dlltool can take
inordinately long time to and take the file system to its knees
while it's creating those thousands of small files, one per
symbol. For those who actually have to use a native windows
machine, this can make it almost impossible to use dlltool to
create import libraries with say 10k symbols thanks to all the
files it needs to create first.
dlltool doesn't have to create any files at all. That's a horrible
hack. It should just build the BFD's in memory.
Ian
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