Re: Libtool: Microsoft dumpbin as name lister

[Albert Chin]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:39:19PM +0200, Tim Van Holder wrote:
> FYI, the dumpbin.exe provided by Visual C++ is really just a stub
> that calls link.exe (rather like symlinking unzip as zipinfo).
> 
> Running "link /dump" has the same effect as running "dumpbin"; so
> perhaps checking for MS Link is enough - if you have identified
> the MS linker, you can use it to list symbols (and I imagine
> libtool may need to know about the linker anyway).

If dumpbin is an alias for "link" with some args, how about scrapping
use of dumpbin and replacing with the appropriate "link" command-line?

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albert chin (address@hidden)