FlexDLL 0.42

Summary

This release primarily adds support for GCC's -l: syntax, to allow specific libraries to be linked statically.

Changes

• #106, @dra27: Support -l: syntax, to allow static linking of specific libraries
• #102, #103, @dra27: Delete objects from C files compiled by flexlink (report by @xavierleroy)
• #72, #85, @dra27: Split multiple arguments passed with a single -Wl; completes the support for -Wl, added in #73 in 0.38

Notes

The binary release includes flexlink.exe compiled with 32-bit mingw-w64 and MSVC objects compiled using the Windows SDK version 7.0 (Windows 7 + .NET 3.5). If you are using large COFF objects you may need to recompile flexlink with a 64-bit compiler. If you are using Visual Studio 2015 or later, the pre-compiled C object files will need to be rebuilt (make CHAINS=msvs support or make CHAINS=msvc64 support). We hope to address both of these issues properly in the next release.

OCaml has supported bootstrap of FlexDLL since 4.03. When compiling from a Git clone, simply run git submodule update --init flexdll or, when compiling from a tarball, unzip the FlexDLL sources into flexdll/. OCaml 4.13 and later will then automatically build FlexDLL as part of the main build.

For OCaml 4.03-4.12, you must explictly run make [-j] flexdll before running make [-j] world[.opt] followed, optionally, by make flexlink.opt. This mode guarantees C objects built with the same C compiler as OCaml and also builds flexlink with the compiler you just built.