Subject: Re: bug#74175: libtool mishandles some compiler flags when used with MSVC tools
From: Ileana Dumitrescu <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Kirill Makurin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 20:24:56 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 13/11/2024 21:59, Ileana Dumitrescu wrote:
> Hi Kirill,
> 
> On 02/11/2024 09:17, Kirill Makurin wrote:
>> The encountered bugs are as follows:
>>
>> 1. When libtool is used with MSVC tools, libtool's link step 
>> mishandles compiler flags like`-Wl` and `-Xlinker`. For example, `- 
>> Wl,- def:FILENAME` becomes plain `-def:FILENAME` when libtool invokes 
>> the compiler*. (as seen in make-msvc.txt)

This part of the bug report has a patch applied [1] in the development
branch now, which should migrate to master after some more time. MSVC
building and testing has greatly improved, so I will hopefully get
another stable release with these fixes out in a couple months.

[1]https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?h=development&id=4ded381a6f09cb761a05403450b5e34fec945f5a

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Ileana Dumitrescu

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