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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I filed a bug for this issue, to prevent cmake from stripping .dll.a files:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=14123">http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=14123</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Gregoire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> cmake-bounces@cmake.org [mailto:cmake-bounces@cmake.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gregoire Aujay<br>
<b>Sent:</b> jeudi 25 avril 2013 14:14<br>
<b>To:</b> cmake@cmake.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CMake] MINGW and strip .dll.a files<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I am just forwarding our discussion to the mailing list. We did not use reply to all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Highligth:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">So, I see no point in striping the .dll.a file. But, of course, I might be wrong.
<span lang="FR">Please, anybody can check this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Gregoire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Daniel Franzini [<a href="mailto:daniel.franzini@gmail.com">mailto:daniel.franzini@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> jeudi 25 avril 2013 13:30<br>
<b>To:</b> Gregoire Aujay<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CMake] MINGW and strip .dll.a files<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">The strip program just removes unused symbols from any object code.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">This is Win32/Mingw specific stuff (MSVC have the same stuff but they use their own object format).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">When you compile a DLL, you have two options:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">1.) hand write your own LoadLibrary/FreeLibrary code and just distribute the DLL with your <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">exe (or other DLL)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">2.) static-link your exe against the dll.a file which is generated by the linker and is win32 specific magic code that have stubs to the functions it will call from the DLL.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Either way you have to distribute the DLL with your exe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">The .dll.a (called import library) file is generated by the linker with appropriate options and it is reported to be buggy in the past. I'm not sure nowadays.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="FR">So, I see no point in striping the .dll.a file. But, of course, I might be wrong. Please, anybody can check this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Gregoire Aujay <<a href="mailto:gaujay@movea.com" target="_blank">gaujay@movea.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">So you agree that CMake should not strip .dll.a files.</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Currently that is what is done in the cmake_install.cmake files, e.g. I get (CMake 2.8.10.2):</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">IF(NOT CMAKE_INSTALL_COMPONENT OR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_COMPONENT}" STREQUAL "Unspecified")</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> FILE(INSTALL DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/release/lib" TYPE STATIC_LIBRARY OPTIONAL FILES
"XXXXXX/release/lib/libmyLib.dll.a")</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> IF(EXISTS "$ENV{DESTDIR}${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/release/lib/ libmyLib.dll.a" AND</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> NOT IS_SYMLINK "$ENV{DESTDIR}${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/release/lib/ libmyLib.dll.a")</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> IF(CMAKE_INSTALL_DO_STRIP)</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND "YYYYYY/bin/strip.exe" "$ENV{DESTDIR}${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/release/lib/
libmyLib.dll.a")</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> ENDIF(CMAKE_INSTALL_DO_STRIP)</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> ENDIF()</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">ENDIF(NOT CMAKE_INSTALL_COMPONENT OR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_COMPONENT}" STREQUAL "Unspecified")</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Unless someone tells me it is done intentionally I will file a bug.</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards,</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Gregoire</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Daniel Franzini [mailto:<a href="mailto:daniel.franzini@gmail.com" target="_blank">daniel.franzini@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> mercredi 24 avril 2013 19:52<br>
<b>To:</b> Gregoire Aujay<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CMake] MINGW and strip .dll.a files</span><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="FR"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="FR">AFAIK, the dll.a file is a import library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="FR"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="FR">It contains code that magically calls the DLL functions without having you to write LoadLibrary/FreeLibrary code.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="FR">Why are you stripping it anyway? The import libray should be linked as-is with your binary and them strip the binary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="FR">NOTE: it does not contain the actual DLL code. It only have stubs that calls DLL functions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="FR">On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Gregoire Aujay <<a href="mailto:gaujay@movea.com" target="_blank">gaujay@movea.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hello,<span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I am trying to package a stripped library built with MINGW.<span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">When I activate strip during install or pack, I get link error (unresolved symbols) when using this library.<span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">When I strip using “-s” option, everything is fine.<span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The difference is that my .dll.a is smaller when I use CMake strip feature. Gcc does not seem to strip the .dll.a file.<span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Is it a good approach to strip the .dll.a file ?<span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Regards,<span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Gregoire<span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do." (Donald Knuth)<br>
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"Yes, technogeeks can be funny, even if only to each other." (<a href="http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/science/humor/">http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/science/humor/</a>)"<br>
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"Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software." (Yukihiro Matsumoto, a.k.a. ``Matz'')
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