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Re: [PATCH 02/14] msvc: git-daemon.exe: Fix linker "unresolved externals" error

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 4, 2010, 21:15 UTC
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On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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> The msvc linker complains about external symbols referenced by
> the new poll() emulation code. In particular, it complains about
> the DispatchMessage(), PeekMessage(), TranslateMessage() and
> MsgWaitForMultipleObjects() functions.
>
> In order to satisfy the external references, we link against the
> user32.lib library.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
> ---
>  Makefile |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 1d42413..bda9fa6 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1087,7 +1087,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows)
>        COMPAT_OBJS = compat/msvc.o compat/fnmatch/fnmatch.o compat/winansi.o compat/win32/pthread.o compat/win32/syslog.o compat/win32/sys/poll.o
>        COMPAT_CFLAGS = -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS -DNOGDI -DHAVE_STRING_H -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H -Icompat -Icompat/fnmatch -Icompat/regex -Icompat/fnmatch -Icompat/win32 -DSTRIP_EXTENSION=\".exe\"
>        BASIC_LDFLAGS = -IGNORE:4217 -IGNORE:4049 -NOLOGO -SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE -NODEFAULTLIB:MSVCRT.lib
> -       EXTLIBS = advapi32.lib shell32.lib wininet.lib ws2_32.lib
> +       EXTLIBS = user32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib wininet.lib ws2_32.lib
>        PTHREAD_LIBS =
>        lib =
>  ifndef DEBUG

Looks sane. But it's a bit odd - it currently builds fine without this patch from the IDE, but not from the makefile. Is the linker-libs different between these?

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  1. 02/14 msvc: git-daemon.exe: Fix linker "unresolved externals" errorRamsay Jones, Dec 4, 2010
  2. Erik Faye-LundDec 4, 2010
  3. Ramsay JonesDec 8, 2010
  4. Erik Faye-LundDec 8, 2010

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