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RE: Windows tools from binutils 2.18
On 16 October 2007 14:48, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Markus,
>
> >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:34:20PM +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> >> How do you think about that the configuration script could provide such
> >> a setting as a service to generate the Windows utilities automatically?
>
> > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>
>> I don't understand. Why is "--target=i586-mingw32" or
>> "--target=i586-cygwin" harder than any other option?
>
> I totally agree. There really is no need for a special configure option.
> Just build the appropriate toolchain and if you really only want the windows
> utilities then just install those executables.
Is i386-pe format included in --enable-targets=all? Does
--enable-targets=all build the windows tools? It probably ought to be implied
if the requisite output format is available.
cheers,
DaveK
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