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Invocation of ld, the GNU Linker
-z initfirst
Mark an object file as the first to be initialized at run-time.
-z interpose
Mark to interpose all Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) files, in order to provide a
way to build a piece of program code in a special format for loading it at run-time
into the address space of an executable program.
-z lodfltr
Mark an object as requiring immediate processing.
-z nodefaultlib
Mark an object to avoid using default search libraries.
-z nodelete
Mark an object as not deletable at run-time.
-z nodlopen
Mark an object as not available to dlopen().
-z nodump
Mark an object as not available to dldump().
-z now
Mark an object as requiring non-lazy run-time binding.
-z origin
Mark an object as requiring immediate $ORIGIN processing at run-time.
Options Specific to PE Targets
The PE linker supports the -shared option, which causes the output to be a
dynamically linked library (DLL) instead of a normal executable. You should name
the output *.dll when you use this option. In addition, the linker fully supports the
standard *.def files, which may be specified on the linker command line like an
object file (in fact, it should precede archives it exports symbols from, to ensure that
they get linked in, just like a normal object file).
In addition to the options common to all targets, the PE linker support additional
command line options that are specific to the PE target. Options that take values may
be separated from their values by either a space or an equals sign.
--add-stdcall-alias
If given, symbols with a stdcall suffix (@nn) will be exported as-is and also with
the suffix stripped.
--base-file file
Use file as the name of a file in which to save the base addresses of all the
relocations needed for generating DLLs with dlltool.
--compat-implib
Create a backwards compatible import library and create __imp_symbol symbols
as well.
--dll
Create a DLL instead of a regular executable. You may also use -shared or
specify a LIBRARY in a given .def file.
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