[Mingw-w64-public] Problems when building NT kernel drivers with GCC / LD

[Martin Storsjö]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2022, Pali Rohár wrote:

> * LD --dynamicbase is not working correctly. If used for PE executables
>  (not dynamic libraries) then it does *not* generate relocation info.
>  And without relocation info in PE binary, it is not possible to
>  relocate base address. Which makes dynamic base non-working.

I don't know about the rest, but this one sounds familiar to me. But IIRC 
this one was fixed semi-recently (1-2 years ago), while making 
--dynamicbase the default.

I think it was fixed in this binutils commit:

commit 514b4e191d5f46de8e142fe216e677a35fa9c4bb
Author: Jeremy Drake <sourceware-bugzilla@jdrake.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 27 12:58:27 2020 +0100

     Change the default characteristics of DLLs built by the linker to more 
secure settings.

This commit is included in binutils 2.36 and later.

// Martin