Re: Recent importlib changes

[Steven Edwards]

Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> It's an ld bug. Currently ld could not use forwarded references in import
> libraries. I reported that bug almost 1.5 years ago in the binutils mailing
> list, but it seems nobody interested in fixing it.
>
> Moreover, in order to eliminate decorated (@xx) names in the dll export table
> you need to apply the attached patch and use latest binutils. But unfortunately
> even it doesn't resolve many other issues with dll linking.

I remember we discussed this a while back. Thanks for the patch, I will 
give it a shot tonight as I just upgraded my gcc, mingw, msys and 
binutils to the latest revs.

Thanks
Steven