From c2cdf0d2a1296eaa75d99246628277a8180bb2ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: delthas <delthas@dille.cc>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 23:59:26 +0200
Subject: win32: Disable ASLR for Windows debug builds

GDB is usually able to debug executables with ASLR by temporarily
disabling ASLR when running that executable. This is only supported on
Linux. On Windows, GDB cannot debug ASLR executables.

This removes the dynamicbase linker flag on Windows for debug builds in
order to be able to debug that executable later.

Hardening an executable with ASLR is important for release builds, but
for debug builds being able to debug is much more important.
---
 meson.build | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'meson.build')

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 645e685e..9b33574b 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -134,9 +134,11 @@ test_ldflags = [
   '-Wl,-z,relro',
   '-Wl,-z,now',
   # mingw
-  '-Wl,--dynamicbase',
   '-Wl,--nxcompat',
 ]
+if not (host_machine.system() == 'windows' and get_option('debug'))
+ test_ldflags += '-Wl,--dynamicbase'
+endif
 foreach ldflag : test_ldflags
   if meson.version().version_compare('>= 0.46.0')
     has_arg = cc.has_link_argument(ldflag)
-- 
cgit 1.4.1