From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
Cc: simon.cook@embecosm.com, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Unable to build GDB on Windows
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:23:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sgb2kjr8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPTJ0XGEpMN=JWDYmEZ6KAj3Ucbfpz7SJsApML61uE_Jfjcm1g@mail.gmail.com> (message from Christian Biesinger on Mon, 28 Sep 2020 17:17:49 +0200)
> From: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 17:17:49 +0200
> Cc: simon.cook@embecosm.com, Reuben Thomas via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
>
> > OTOH, if you build on Windows before 7, the produced binary will be
> > able to run on newer versions of Windows by dynamically loading
> > bcrypt.dll (when available) at run time, and using a fallback
> > otherwise.
>
> Hmm that sounds odd, usually the way the Windows SDK works is that
> this only depends on what you #define, not what you build on
> (especially _WIN32_WINNT)
Well, that's true, but how many will use "CPPFLAGS=-D_WIN32_WINNT=..."
when configuring GDB? The default is buried somewhere in the MinGW
headers, and guess what it is?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-28 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-28 13:47 Simon Cook
2020-09-28 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 15:15 ` Joel Brobecker
2020-09-28 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 15:17 ` Christian Biesinger
2020-09-28 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-09-28 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 15:02 ` Simon Cook
2020-09-28 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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