Re: Link problems

Eli Zaretskii <eliz-mXXj517/[email protected]> Tue, 02 Jun 2020 18:04:25 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Keith Marshall <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peter Williams <[email protected]>, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 20:46:05 +0100
> 
> > These look like either missing import libraries on the link command
> > line, or maybe some snafu with including windows.h, which declares
> > these functions.  The former problem could have been caused by the
> > fact that you used both -mconsole and -mwindows.  I suggest to add -v
> > to the GCC command line and see which libraries it scans.
> 
> No, it's a bug in mingwrt-5.3.2, due to a circular dependency between
> -lmingw32 and -lmingwex, introduced in a flawed effort to correct a
> defect in libmingwex-2.dll.

Ah, so it's a Good Thing I didn't yet upgrade to 5.3.2 ;-)

Thanks for the heads-up.  I guess/hope we will have 5.3.3 soon
enough...

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