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Re: Windows tools from binutils 2.18

From: Markus Elfring <Markus dot Elfring at web dot de>
To: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:30:05 +0200
Subject: Re: Windows tools from binutils 2.18
References: <16621622.1192392178587.JavaMail.fmail@fmcert01.dlan.cinetic.de> <471288C7.C97EA726@dessent.net>

> If you intend to create/modify PE binaries then you have to build a cross-binutils
> by specifying --target=whatever, there is no way around that.

I suggest to support a configuration option like "--enable-Windows-tools" so
that the utilities for Windows file formats will be generated directly without a
specific cross-build.

Regards,
Markus

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