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Re: About linker otions on rebasing


Brian Dessent wrote

> The image base is only relevant when creating a DLL.  When creating an
> .exe the issue is irrelevant as all executables have an image base of
> 0x0040000.

Brian,

Do you remember the problems of Emacs after rebasing? It needs libncurses7 not-rebased.

Only using '-Wl,--enable-auto-image-base' in its build makes it work also after the rebasing and, if I remember correctly, no DLL are created in its build.

In any case, thanks for the answer.

Angelo

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