MinGW/GCC Delay Loaded DLL equivalent?

Question

I'm trying to port some old MSVC C++ code to MinGW/GCC.

One problem is that the project relies heavily on the /DELAYLOAD option for functions that aren't always used, and where the proper dll is located at runtime.

Is there such a similar option on MinGW/GCC?

This code is targeting the windows platform.

Answer 1

On elf targets (for Unix-like systems), you can specify the -z lazy option (which is the default anyway) with ld (the linker that MinGW also uses).

As far as I know, the i386 PE target (for Windows) does not have an explicit lazy linking option. I can find no documentation of it being available.