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authorPhilip Kaufmann <phil.kaufmann@t-online.de>2013-01-10 14:21:52 +0100
committerPhilip Kaufmann <phil.kaufmann@t-online.de>2013-01-17 22:01:42 +0100
commit1f0ce2dd68313094af7cf6647bdf5936bee8352c (patch)
tree1e2f31974b3d92ad070fbafb731bf6488c75ead4
parent91f70a75daa7ffb89bbec23ca54e5f2c3fa1a83e (diff)
enable GCC large address aware linker flag (Windows only)
- this flag allows bitcoin-qt.exe / bitcoind.exe (32-bit application) to handle addresses larger than 2GB (up to 3GB on x86 Windows and up to 4GB on x64 Windows)
-rw-r--r--bitcoin-qt.pro2
-rw-r--r--src/makefile.linux-mingw3
-rw-r--r--src/makefile.mingw3
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bitcoin-qt.pro b/bitcoin-qt.pro
index 50ca80cb0f..cda840cbc9 100644
--- a/bitcoin-qt.pro
+++ b/bitcoin-qt.pro
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ QMAKE_LFLAGS *= -fstack-protector-all
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS *= -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now
# for extra security on Windows: enable ASLR and DEP via GCC linker flags
win32:QMAKE_LFLAGS *= -Wl,--dynamicbase -Wl,--nxcompat
+# on Windows: enable GCC large address aware linker flag
+win32:QMAKE_LFLAGS *= -Wl,--large-address-aware
# use: qmake "USE_QRCODE=1"
# libqrencode (http://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/index.en.html) must be installed for support
diff --git a/src/makefile.linux-mingw b/src/makefile.linux-mingw
index ff565f2a2d..efbce1f047 100644
--- a/src/makefile.linux-mingw
+++ b/src/makefile.linux-mingw
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ LIBS= \
DEFS=-D_MT -DWIN32 -D_WINDOWS -DBOOST_THREAD_USE_LIB -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE
DEBUGFLAGS=-g
CFLAGS=-O2 -w -Wall -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-unused-parameter $(DEBUGFLAGS) $(DEFS) $(INCLUDEPATHS)
-LDFLAGS=-Wl,--dynamicbase -Wl,--nxcompat
+# enable: ASLR, DEP and large address aware
+LDFLAGS=-Wl,--dynamicbase -Wl,--nxcompat -Wl,--large-address-aware
TESTDEFS = -DTEST_DATA_DIR=$(abspath test/data)
diff --git a/src/makefile.mingw b/src/makefile.mingw
index 9a6680bf40..a7a57a2a24 100644
--- a/src/makefile.mingw
+++ b/src/makefile.mingw
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ LIBS= \
DEFS=-DWIN32 -D_WINDOWS -DBOOST_THREAD_USE_LIB -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE
DEBUGFLAGS=-g
CFLAGS=-mthreads -O2 -w -Wall -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-unused-parameter $(DEBUGFLAGS) $(DEFS) $(INCLUDEPATHS)
-LDFLAGS=-Wl,--dynamicbase -Wl,--nxcompat
+# enable: ASLR, DEP and large address aware
+LDFLAGS=-Wl,--dynamicbase -Wl,--nxcompat -Wl,--large-address-aware
TESTDEFS = -DTEST_DATA_DIR=$(abspath test/data)