Windows tools from binutils 2.18

[Brian Dessent]

Markus Elfring wrote:

> I have rebuilt the current release of binutils 2.18 on my openSUSE 10.3 system. I have hoped that it will generate the software "windres", "windmc" and "dlltool". But that did not happen. Can I get them without forcing the configuration script to think that it is executed in a Windows environment? Would you like to recommend any options to activate these tools for a Linux environment?

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.  There is no point in building the PE-only tools when configured
for an ELF target because that is nonsensical, they would not work
anyway.

Brian