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authorJoerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann@qt.io>2017-10-17 14:30:01 +0200
committerJoerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann@qt.io>2017-10-17 14:28:10 +0000
commit94fc71997ca8fb94fb1cba6f36eb9a24b6da4464 (patch)
tree1c413322cf3e7fc5391c9a610b6c3455fba5ef4b
parent76583eb3e7656b96e5033bf8e1aba963ff899e19 (diff)
Revert "Use MSVC's /WHOLEARCHIVE linker flag"
This reverts commit 6eae98639730ab1ad1611f1ea61bcaad2fe0f69a. The /WHOLEARCHIVE flag stopped working in VS 2017 15.4.0. Use our beloved list of object files again. Task-number: QTBUG-63701 Change-Id: I9eaf7c92012d6d3c73658f9e06d422c52fa1dc76 Reviewed-by: Michal Klocek <michal.klocek@qt.io> Reviewed-by: Allan Sandfeld Jensen <allan.jensen@qt.io>
-rw-r--r--src/core/api/core_api.pro8
-rw-r--r--src/core/core_module.pro4
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/core/api/core_api.pro b/src/core/api/core_api.pro
index 05166536e..270595378 100644
--- a/src/core/api/core_api.pro
+++ b/src/core/api/core_api.pro
@@ -55,3 +55,11 @@ unix:!isEmpty(QMAKE_LFLAGS_VERSION_SCRIPT):!static {
SOURCES += qtbug-60565.cpp \
qtbug-61521.cpp
}
+
+msvc {
+ # Create a list of object files that can be used as response file for the linker.
+ # This is done to simulate -whole-archive on MSVC.
+ QMAKE_POST_LINK = \
+ "if exist $(DESTDIR_TARGET).objects del $(DESTDIR_TARGET).objects$$escape_expand(\\n\\t)" \
+ "for %%a in ($(OBJECTS)) do echo $$shell_quote($$shell_path($$OUT_PWD))\\%%a >> $(DESTDIR_TARGET).objects"
+}
diff --git a/src/core/core_module.pro b/src/core/core_module.pro
index 3785ddc46..44e8ac613 100644
--- a/src/core/core_module.pro
+++ b/src/core/core_module.pro
@@ -47,8 +47,10 @@ CONFIG *= no_smart_library_merge
osx {
LIBS_PRIVATE += -Wl,-force_load,$${api_library_path}$${QMAKE_DIR_SEP}lib$${api_library_name}.a
} else:msvc {
+ # Simulate -whole-archive by passing the list of object files that belong to the public
+ # API library as response file to the linker.
QMAKE_LFLAGS += /OPT:REF
- QMAKE_LFLAGS += /WHOLEARCHIVE:$${api_library_path}$${QMAKE_DIR_SEP}$${api_library_name}.lib
+ QMAKE_LFLAGS += @$${api_library_path}$${QMAKE_DIR_SEP}$${api_library_name}.lib.objects
} else {
LIBS_PRIVATE += -Wl,-whole-archive -l$$api_library_name -Wl,-no-whole-archive
}