[Mingw-users] Re: GNU ld for Mingw-host

[Earnie Boyd]

Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
> Hi Kai,
> 
> >  Hi, has someone worked with porting the binutils for Mingw lately? (Not only
> > as the target...)
> 
> No one has responded, so I guess that the answer would be "no". :-(
> 
> >  Finally and by an accident I became aware that the 'ld/emultempl/elf32.em'
> > and it using 'stat()', could be the reason to the fact that all the Mingw-
> > hosted GNU linkers for the ELF-systems using shared '.so' libraries fail in
> > finding those 'NEEDED' or 'linked' shared libraries, the '-rpath-link' having
> > no influence at all now...
> 

I didn't know that elf was ported to Win32.  That's the most likely
reason that it doesn't work.

> I assume then that 'stat()' does not work under Mingw ?  What is the
> alternative for this OS ?
> 

http://www.google.com/search?q=stat+site%3Amicrosoft.com

Earnie.

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