[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer linking takes forever on MinGW

[Dave Yeo]

On 11/29/10 12:46 pm, Georgi Petrov wrote:
>> What about using a different linker until ld is fixed? I'd guess that the
>> >  Microsoft linker would work and if you want to use open source there is the
>> >  OpenWatcom linker, wlink.exe.
> Is this possible at all? I will investigate this, for sure. I always
> thought that object files, produced by a certain compiler must be
> linked with linker from the same toolchain? I might be completely
> wrong, of course. I will try.
>

On OS/2 we use ld for a.out and ilink (IBM linker) or wlink for OMF. One 
possible problem with a different linker is losing the debug stuff.
Dave