Bug 822312

I just tried to reproduce this here, but it seems to work as expected with mingw32-gcc-4.7.0-2.fc17.x86_64:

$ cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	printf("Hello world\n");
	return 0;
}

$ i686-w64-mingw32-gcc test.c -o test.exe -fstack-protector-all
$ i686-w64-mingw32-objdump -p test.exe | grep "DLL Name"
	DLL Name: KERNEL32.dll
	DLL Name: msvcrt.dll
	DLL Name: libssp-0.dll

$ i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -static test.c -o test.exe -fstack-protector-all
$ i686-w64-mingw32-objdump -p test.exe | grep "DLL Name"
	DLL Name: KERNEL32.dll
	DLL Name: msvcrt.dll
	DLL Name: msvcrt.dll

Hm. I'll see what distinguishes our test cases and report back… since being able to manually make it static would be a big improvement.

But I don't believe that libssp-0 being static with -static is the expected behavior in any case. That would be like dynamically linking libgcc.   On the native Linux binaries you never see libssp dynamically linked.

hmm, by using '-static' option on gcc's frontend, it is absolutely to be expected that only the static-libraries are linked.  This is true as long as there is a .dll.a and a .a library of same name present.

To clarify: I mean I expect ssp to be static no matter if -static is set or not.

This expectation is not correct.  By default gcc uses shared (means on Windoze DLL) libraries.  As libssp is built as DLL version and as static version, of course it uses by default the shared one.
If you want to force static version of a library, then you need to add it explicit to the linker.  Also be aware that in combination with libtool things might get weird about static/shared, too.

If you say so— though this simply isn't the behavior it has on native binaries:

[gmaxwell@helmholtz tmp]$ gcc test.c -o test -fstack-protector-all
[gmaxwell@helmholtz tmp]$ ldd test
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffc618e000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00000038ef600000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00000038ef200000)

Though yes indeed, it confuses the heck out of libtool which actually was my problem in getting it to produce a static binary— intermediate libraries were introducing the dynamic dependency when -static was only set at the final linking stage.

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