From: =?UTF-8?q?=C4=B0smail=20D=C3=B6nmez?= <ismail@xxxxxxxx> This is the first step for enabling ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) support. We want to enable ASLR for better protection against exploiting security holes in Git: it makes it harder to attack software by making code addresses unpredictable. The problem fixed by this commit is that `ld.exe` seems to be stripping relocations which in turn will break ASLR support. We just make sure it's not stripping the main executable entry. Signed-off-by: İsmail Dönmez <ismail@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- config.mak.uname | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname index b37fa8424c..e7c7d14e5f 100644 --- a/config.mak.uname +++ b/config.mak.uname @@ -573,10 +573,12 @@ else ifeq (MINGW32,$(MSYSTEM)) prefix = /mingw32 HOST_CPU = i686 + BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable,-e,_mainCRTStartup endif ifeq (MINGW64,$(MSYSTEM)) prefix = /mingw64 HOST_CPU = x86_64 + BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable,-e,mainCRTStartup else COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--large-address-aware -- gitgitgadget
