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Re: Windows libc


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: Windows libc
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:40:42 +0100

>> I'm seriously thinking of forking Wine's MSVCRT + gnulib's code to
>> provide a decent native libc for Windows.  That would support Windows CE
>> of course.
>
> Will this libc be interoperable with DLLs in the MS PE/COFF format?

I could just make it a static library.  In the end that's what gnulib
is, a huge static library.  Note that unlike Cygwin etc. I would
support only DOS-style names etc.  It would be nowhere near
the complexity of glibc, basically just POSIX system calls and
little more.

Paolo




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