Re: [ros-dev] Autogenerating compiler specific .def files

[Steven Edwards]

On Dec 1, 2007 7:39 AM, Colin Finck <mail(a)colinfinck.de> wrote:
>   Hello,
>
>  For your information: As there were no more comments on this, I started
>  working on a tool now, which transforms .spec files into both GNU and MSVC
>  .def files.
>  It will be based a bit on winebuild's code, but won't include all this stuff
>  we don't need (code generation for non-PE compilers, 16-bit support, etc.),
>  so it should become more lightweight and faster.
>
>  If someone still disagrees with such a solution, please do that now and
>  explain why. 
I think you need to add this feature to Winebuild and leave winebuild in
place. The reason why is that winebuild has the ability to create ELF
winelib binaries that are really contain the embedded PE dll. Using winebuild
and the winelib binary format for port to other archtechtures should save
you a lot of problems. I don't know much about the format of arty's work on
PPC but I know winebuild already has the ability to generate PPC and SPARC
winelib ELF binaries and ReactOS already contains an ELF loader. Extending
a few APIs in ReactOS to actually teach it how to load the winelib dlls
should save a lot of headaches because you would not need to hack much
of a customer compiler for the new target platform. The PE target in gcc to my
knowledge only exists still for i386/x86-64 and Arm/Xscale.

Thanks
Steven

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