Re: Building Elfutils with Mingw32

2023-09-16 Thread Ulf Hermann via Elfutils-devel
Hi, I'll answer some questions here: Given that Windows doesn't even use ELF why would you even want elfutils on such a platform? There is a large number of developers who build software for ELF-based embedded systems on windows and test/debug/profile/deploy it over some network or USB conn

Re: Building Elfutils with Mingw32

2023-09-16 Thread Ulf Hermann via Elfutils-devel
I haven't considered shipping cygwin with perfparser. Is that actually possible? It looks like it needs some installation procedure I would have to burden the user with. I guess shipping cygwin with perfparser would make me a 3PP [1]. Sounds like fun. [1] https://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#3PP

Re: Building Elfutils with Mingw32

2023-09-16 Thread Milian Wolff
On Samstag, 16. September 2023 09:17:44 CEST Ulf Hermann via Elfutils-devel wrote: > Hi, > > I'll answer some questions here: > > Given that Windows doesn't even use ELF why would you even want elfutils > > on > > such a platform? > > There is a large number of developers who build software for