Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <09e701c1945a$5adf84d0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Jason Tishler" Cc: "Ralf Habacker" , "Cygwin" References: <000c01c18e49$22279220$526307d5@BRAMSCHE> <20011227180503.GD2204@dothill.com> <045401c18f33$844d7f60$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <20020103132835.GB1940@dothill.com> Subject: Re: rebase addon - Bas and Size listing of dll's without rebasing Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 00:27:12 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Jan 2002 13:27:03.0061 (UTC) FILETIME=[549CBC50:01C1945A] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Tishler" > > IMO we should be using bfd not the MS helper libraries - in the long > > term. Otherwise one cannot do any of this as part of a cross compile or > > cross-manipulation toolkit. > > Good point. > > I'm willing to do the right thing, but that is going to take longer given > the ramp up necessary for me learn about binutils' configury/make, bfd, > etc. However, I would like to get a rebase solution into setup.exe ASAP. > Is a two prong approach acceptable? In the short term, add rebase to > winsup/utils, integrate directly into setup.exe, etc. In the long term, > add rebase to binutils, integrate with ld, etc. Yes. In fact it's probably a requirement, as setup.exe cannot get too big. Does the MS solution need .dll's not present on win95a ? Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/