Folkert de Vries (Aug 28 2022 at 13:55): Folkert de Vries (Aug 28 2022 at 13:55):for the windows surgical linker, it would be convenient to have a fairly empty DLL to use as a base. I tried making one with zig, but it insists on adding a bunch of extra junk that we don't need.
for linux, we've had success with using an object file (like the one above) and turning that into a .so (shared object) using the system linker. I'm hoping someone on windows can take the .obj above and turn it into a .dll in a similar way.
There seems to be very little material about using a linker manually on windows. I'd expect something like
ld windows_dummy.obj -o windows_dummy.dll
but it likely needs some sort of -dynamic or -shared flag to work.
Folkert de Vries (Aug 28 2022 at 13:59):you might be able to use the linker through the C compiler
cc -Os -s windows_dummy.obj windows_dummy.dll
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