Martin Storsjö

Right, I do remember looking at this detail and discussing it with someone. FWIW, LLD has got slightly different logic for short/truncated vs long section names. If linking stripped (`-Wl,-s`),...

Hm, from what I remember from discussing this with others, was that the `.note.*` sections were only emitted for certain cases (dynamically linked crates maybe, if I remember correctly?). In...

> So far using LLD 9 from MSYS2 (coupled with GCC 9) was nice but when building `cdylib` crate types (those result in `*.dll` on Windows) it gives following error:...

> > What are the version scripts used for here? > > I think their purpose is to distinguish local and global symbols. Sure - I meant does it use...

Maybe open another one; I might actually look at implementing some form of `--enable-long-section-names` still.

Well, linker script in general is kinda won't fix. Version script is more of "I think it should be doable but I haven't had the direct need yet, it's always...

I guess it could be possible, but it'd require some amount of fiddling with the build scripts, making the whole build setup more complicated (while it now is simpler when...

Hej! > I've automated the downloading of various Windows SDK / Visual Studio components, through the JSON manifest Microsoft makes available. Oh, that sounds very interesting! I'm following recent releases...

> > Can you give any pointers to it? > > Sure! The downloading work is in this file: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/72366/files#diff-f68d2a470af52a513434dc58d7ad943b. In short, from https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/channel there is a link to another...

> > Sure! The downloading work is in this file: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/72366/files#diff-f68d2a470af52a513434dc58d7ad943b. In short, from https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/channel there is a link to another json file with URLS and hashes for all the...