Stop using dlltool for generating import libraries on MinGW#157712
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Older versions of ld.bfd didn't support short import libraries like the builtin implementation of rustc generates. So we worked around this by using binutils dlltool, which produces the old import library format. We have now bumped the minimum supported ld.bfd version to one which does support them, so we can drop the dlltool usage. This makes cross-compilation a bit easier and removes a bunch of code in rustc.
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Older versions of ld.bfd didn't support short import libraries like the builtin implementation of rustc generates. So we worked around this by using binutils dlltool, which produces the old import library format. We have now bumped (TODO) the minimum supported ld.bfd version to one which does support them, so we can drop the dlltool usage. This makes cross-compilation a bit easier and removes a bunch of code in rustc.
Blocked on updating the required binutils version.