Re: Possible specs file error in MinGW GCC

> From: Keith Marshall <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:56:28 +0000
> 
> Explicitly specifying:
> 
>    $ gcc fubar.c -L ./foo.d -lmingwex
> 
> (which effectively forces an extra scan of -lmingwex, *before* any of
> the default library scans), is sufficient to overcome the problem.  The
> same effect may be achieved by modifying the GCC specs file, to move
> -lmingwex before -lgcc; (it does not appear to be needed again, between
> -lmoldname and -lmsvcrt); thus, the correct order would seem to be:
> 
>    -lmingw32 -lmingwex -lgcc -lgcc_eh -lmoldname -lmsvcrt
>    -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -luser32 -lkernel32
> 
> followed by repeated:
> 
>    -lmingw32 -lmingwex -lgcc -lgcc_eh -lmoldname -lmsvcrt
> 
> I propose making this specs change, in the built-in specs for GCC-9.2,
> and releasing this along with mingwrt-5.3.  Thus, mingwrt-5.3 will be
> dependent on this (rebuilt) GCC-9.2, or users will need to either link
> -lmingwex explicitly, or make the requisite specs file change, if they
> wish to use mingwrt-5.3 with any earlier version of MinGW-GCC.

Sounds reasonable, thanks.

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