From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30874 invoked by alias); 30 Jan 2004 00:29:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 30847 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2004 00:29:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail4.tpgi.com.au) (203.12.160.61) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Jan 2004 00:29:03 -0000 Received: from tpgi.com.au (203-219-88-176-per-pow-ts1-2600.tpgi.com.au [203.219.88.176]) by mail4.tpgi.com.au (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0U0T0JP011749 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:29:01 +1100 Message-ID: <4019A54C.90703@tpgi.com.au> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:37:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: open watcom compiling gcc on win32 References: <20040127073509.GB10278@mdssdev05.comp.pge.com> <20040127183526.GA11059@mdssdev05.comp.pge.com> <20040129232602.GA14941@mdssdev05.comp.pge.com> <200401292346.i0TNk4CT028713@greed.delorie.com> In-Reply-To: <200401292346.i0TNk4CT028713@greed.delorie.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TPG-Antivirus: Passed X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg02234.txt.bz2 > At this point, you've left the realm of gcc and wandered into either > the binutils realm, or the cygwin realm. The mechanisms for producing > DLLs are in binutils (specifically, the linker "ld"), and the policy > for making cygwin1.dll specifically rests with the cygwin project. Actually, I believe that the windows versions of GCC can already produce windows compatible DLLs. What this guy (and possibly others here and on the mingw list) seem to be asking for is for GCC to implement the visual C++ ABI (something which, from what I understand Open Watcom already does).