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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 19:01:30
Message-Id: 5717D1FD.7010700@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support by Mike Frysinger
1 On 4/20/16 2:17 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On 20 Apr 2016 21:01, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
3 >> On 20 April 2016 at 18:52, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> Comments?
6 >>
7 >> You should be able to achieve similar behavior by looking at libc
8 >> and/or CHOST without introducing new USE flag, just like we do for
9 >> aix/solaris/freebsd etc...
10 >
11 > agreed ... we have kernel_Winnt & elibc_Winnt already. i think
12 > those represent a mingw environment (vs a cygwin env).
13
14 The way I think of it is
15
16 the operating system (ie kernel) = kernel_Winnt
17 the system libraries (=~libc) = elibc_Winnt
18 the executable binary format = win32
19
20 I don't know that we need an executable binary format flag, but we might
21 because they're working on windows 10 so it can natively run ELF.
22
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24 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
25 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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