On Friday 30 May 2025 18:43:30 Pali Rohár wrote: > On Monday 26 May 2025 11:49:04 Martin Storsjö wrote: > > On Mon, 26 May 2025, LIU Hao wrote: > > > > > > Yeah, I agree. That was also the original reason for why we started > > > > merging them originally; we had lib32, lib64 and libarm32, and > > > > wanted to add libarm64. (Also, at the time I didn't have the real OS > > > > yet to even dump the DLLs, so it would have been a copy of libarm32 > > > > anyway.) > > > > > > > > A lot of the differences we have stem from the fact that lib32, > > > > lib64 and libarm32, before starting unification, had been dumped > > > > from quite different windows versions. > > > > > > The idea about generating DEFs from DLLs is doubleplusungood > > > > It has some drawbacks, yes. > > > > But it also allows calling functions that aren't exposed in the official > > SDKs. We rely on this for ucrtbase.dll and > > api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.dll. > > Also on msvcrt.dll.
So is the idea of deduplicating lib32 and lib-common def files abandoned? Or is there still any interest to do it? _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
