Plug-ins on Windows
Kyle Girard
kyle@kdmanalytics.com
Tue Jul 6 13:41:00 GMT 2010
> The attached patch still has some rough edges, like missing main gcc
> ChangeLog, missing documentation, no dso building implemented (should
> eventually work both in-tree to be installed in the plugin dir and
> out-of-tree with a previous built compiler).
>
Well, I definitely owe you some beer. The gcc I am using isn't trunk
but the majority of the changes applied cleanly. I had to back port
some changes from trunk to my version and do a little extra hack or two
to get it to work on Windows but it works like a charm!
On Windows, when you configure gcc it doesn't set ENABLE_PLUGIN because
dynamically linked plugins are (rightfully so) unsupported and
LINK_PLUGIN_NAMES doesn't get set by configure. Therefore I had to add
LINK_PLUGIN_NAMES define to the compile options for opts.o in the
gcc/Makefile.in. The exact same options your patch added for plugin.o,
after that and fixing a missing return type and semi colon in plugin.c
everything works like a charm. You definitely saved me quite a bit of
time thanks again!
I think if this patch was polished up it could be at least a short term
solution for plugin support on Windows. Plus it's a cool feature on
other platforms as well.
Cheers,
Kyle
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