Re: strtoumax could not be located in...cygwin1.dll

[Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>]

Dave Korn wrote:

> > It sounds like you didn't update your libcygwin.a .
> 
>   Ah.  So you mean that forwarders only end up as import stubs in the .a,
> not as exports from the .dll itself?

I think this is what the ld manual is hinting at at the end of the
section "direct linking to a dll":
<http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.16/ld/WIN32.html>

"Sometimes it is necessary to include pure static objects within the
import library (which otherwise contains only bfd's for indirection
symbols that point to the exports of a dll). Again, the import lib for
the cygwin kernel makes use of this ability, and it is not possible to
do this without an import lib."

On an unrelated note, I had always thought that direct linking to a dll
took *more* resources during link compared to using an import library,
but apparently this is backwards.  I guess it pays to RTFM.

Brian

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