Re: [Mingw-w64-public] mingw-w64-tools: genlib - internal tool for import lib generation

2015-10-28 Thread Martell Malone
> > Did you consider just sending dlltool patches upstream? I did but I had 3 reasons for not doing this. The first was dlltool was very strange, it invoked the assembler to generate each part of the import library and that would never be able to comply with the spec and was just a needless waste

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] mingw-w64-tools: genlib - internal tool for import lib generation

2015-10-28 Thread Martell Malone
Also please ignore any grammatical errors its been a long day :D CC+ Ray because I remembered he knows the ld maintainer for windows CC+ JB so that he knows this is now been proposed to be merged CC+ Martin because he was interested in developing a similar tool On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:50 AM, M

[Mingw-w64-public] mingw-w64-tools: genlib - internal tool for import lib generation

2015-10-28 Thread Martell Malone
Hi, Kai and I discussed this previously but I would like to present to everyone a tool to generate import libs based on layout and code structure of gendef. I would like propose https://github.com/martell/genlib to be merged as part of the mingw-w64 project. There are a couple of advantages over

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Long double format under x86_64

2015-10-28 Thread Martell Malone
> > Yes, I am. At least at that time I made x64 target ready, it used the > 80-bit floating-point too. Nevertheless it is most naturally to use > same floating-point precision for x64 as used for x87, as targets need > to be remain compatible here. Thanks for confirming kai. :) So not sure what