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Re: How to build windres to run on OS X


On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 03:23:35PM -0700, Wenlin Institute wrote:
> 	cd /binutils-2.16.1
> 	./configure --target=i686-pc-mingw32
> 
> -- that seems to run OK, but then when I ran "make", here is what  
> appeared:

Create a new clean source directory.  Start from scratch.

> I don't really understand the meaning of "target" here. I'm trying to  
> compile windres on OS X, so that I can run windres on OS X. Doesn't  
> that mean the "host" and "target" are both OS X? Notwithstanding the  
> fact that windres itself will be used to compile an application that  
> will run on MS-Windows?

No.  Compile on is --build, run on is --host, generate code for is
--target.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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