Message-ID:	<32829931.7EF7@ananke.amu.edu.pl>
Date:	Fri, 08 Nov 1996 03:21:37 +0100
From:	Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To:	grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
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To:	Malcolm Taylor <malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz>
CC:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Adding Windows Support?
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Malcolm Taylor wrote:

> Well, there is a document somewhere around that describes the Win32
> PE/COFF format. I do not have this anymore, but I did send it to a few
> people a while ago (can't remember quite who, Bill Currie maybe?).
I have the document which came with BC 4.52. It is from Micro$oft and
has some bugs. It is inevitable to have the Win32 SDK header files to
check the document with structures in them.

> Basicly it's a _very_ large project waiting for someone to lead it.
> The project would consist of enabling the generation of PE/COFF format
> (ie. write a new linker, change LD or make a COFF-GO32 to PE/COFF
> converter), writing header files, writing startup code, modifying the
> libc.a to work under Windows (maybe a new lib), finding a freeware
> resource compiler ...
I think that changing LD is not necessary. The COFF-PE converter for
linked executables would be a fairly easy to program stuff. If anything
might be modified here, it's the BFD library - someone would have to add
the PE target to it..
Header files may be taken from either RSXNT or Cygnus GCC Win32 port. 
As to resource compiler - RSXNT contains a full source of this utility
(a little buggy but working). I don't know whether it's freeware but at
least it contains full source of Bison parser for resource script
language. If the compiler is, for some reason, unusable, I can write a
new one. If anyone is interested, I have a full description of Win32
binary resource format.

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