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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@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 19:31:02
Message-Id: 6c85de9f-cd71-a048-f858-0bb9443ea17b@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support by "Anthony G. Basile"
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4 On 20/04/16 03:01 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
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6 > The way I think of it is
7 >
8 > the operating system (ie kernel) = kernel_Winnt the system
9 > libraries (=~libc) = elibc_Winnt the executable binary format
10 > = win32
11 >
12 > I don't know that we need an executable binary format flag, but
13 > we might because they're working on windows 10 so it can natively
14 > run ELF.
15 >
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18 According to 'file' the binary format is actually "PE32 executable
19 (console) Intel 80386, for MS Windows" for a random *.exe file in my
20 /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/usr/bin
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22 I assume PE32 would be the label one would use if comparing to ELF ?
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