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0009071CMakeCMakepublic2009-05-26 17:562009-06-01 11:08
ReporterTorsten Rohlfing 
Assigned ToBrad King 
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
StatusclosedResolutionfixed 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product VersionCMake-2-6 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0009071: gcc4 on cygwin may need extra link options, otherwise exception
DescriptionWhen building under Cygwin using gcc4 (tested using gcc-4.3.2beta), some applications require an additional linker flag to work:

CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS=-Wl,--enable-auto-import

It would be nice if CMake could auto-detect this combination of OS/compiler and pre-set this flag.

Some generated binaries run without using this flag during the build, but others generate "exception c0000005" (as displayed when running binary through "strace") before even entering main().

Sorry, but I can't provide a small test example. The technical background seems to be related to this issue though:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg01101.html [^]

Noteworthy also:

- No problems using gcc-3.x.x, but eventually gcc-4 will probably supersede gcc-3 on cygwin (plus, gcc-4 provides OpenMP).

- The linker using gcc-4 actually provides a warning message saying that it auto-enabled "auto-importing", and it says under what circumstances that doesn't work. Probably applies here.
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(0016581)
Brad King (manager)
2009-05-27 11:34

 It should be safe to just always put --enable-auto-import on exe link lines for Cygwin. It works with the older compiler too. We already do it when linking shared libraries.

ENH: Auto-import symbols for cygwin executables
/cvsroot/CMake/CMake/Modules/Platform/CYGWIN.cmake,v <-- Modules/Platform/CYGWIN.cmake
new revision: 1.21; previous revision: 1.20
/cvsroot/CMake/CMake/bootstrap,v <-- bootstrap
new revision: 1.118; previous revision: 1.117
(0016599)
Brad King (manager)
2009-06-01 11:08

 I've scheduled this for inclusion in CMake 2.6.5.

 Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2009-05-26 17:56 Torsten Rohlfing New Issue
2009-05-27 09:00 Bill Hoffman Status new => assigned
2009-05-27 09:00 Bill Hoffman Assigned To => Brad King
2009-05-27 11:34 Brad King Note Added: 0016581
2009-06-01 11:08 Brad King Note Added: 0016599
2009-06-01 11:08 Brad King Status assigned => closed
2009-06-01 11:08 Brad King Resolution open => fixed

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