Internal Linker: what changed
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Title: Internal Linker
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| 1 | + | Good information about linkers and loaders can be found in the book Linkers and Loaders at <http://www.iecc.com/linker/> | |
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| 3 | + | Steps | |
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| 5 | + | - Get familiar with the fpc sources | |
| 6 | + | - Analyse what is available in the fpc sources. A couple of years ago a basic linker for go32v2 was already working. | |
| 7 | + | - Start coding, the first thing to add is a scriptable memory/file layout, like the ld-scripts. | |
| 8 | + | - Add PE coff support | |
| 9 | + | - Add static ELF support | |
| 10 | + | - Add shared ELF support | |
| 11 | + | - Add optimizations for smartlinking | |
| 12 | + | - Add internal object format | |
| 13 | + | - Keep an eye on memory usage and overall speed. | |
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| 16 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Internal Linker", as it stood on 2013-05-03 after a change by Chronos, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* | |
| 17 | + | Category: FPC development |