From: malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz (Malcolm Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Win32 support for Djgpp
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:40:37 GMT
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Serge Golovin <res AT marstu DOT mari DOT su> wrote:

>George Foot wrote:
>> ...but I think the
>> main obstacle here is the djwin32 library. This will be a lot of work,
>> and we really need more people who are intimate with the Win32 API.
>How do you think what stuff should this djwin32 contain?
>(And why is it called so?)
>And second - You dont need to know all Win32 API specifics to make DJGPP
>compile PE modules. You just need to know how to call them in low level.
>Again, main thing - to make linker to produce PE.
>Will we start?
>If yes - who will do this? As I wrote before - I'm ready.
>Please point me and others on PE format specifications.

Just take the patches (diffs) from the Cygnus project and apply them
to the DJGPP GCC and LD and you should then have added the PE-COFF
target to the BFD. This should allow you to then compile and link
PE-COFF executables. Of course it will take some work to weed out the
bits that we want only.
Note that AFAIK there is no problem with the licenses as long as we
don't take the library sources. In fact the GPL is written so that we
can take the Cygnus sources and use them in DJGPP.

Malcolm