Windows tools from binutils 2.18

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Mon Oct 15 22:42:00 GMT 2007


On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:30:05PM +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > 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.

They will not work unless binutils are configured with
--target=i386-pe.  It's really not hard to do....

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
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