From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MZWEJ-0003sc-PQ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:39:59 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MZWEI-0003pu-33 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:39:58 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MZWEC-0003h8-NL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:39:57 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38989 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZWEC-0003gm-HP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:39:52 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:35509 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MZWEC-0003wl-4g for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:39:52 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MZWE9-0008Hq-0k for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:39:49 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MZWE8-0004GM-Ai for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:39:48 +0200 Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 22:39:48 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090807203948.GA16350@thorin> References: <20090807134614.GA8719@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Solving the grub-pe2elf problem X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:39:58 -0000 On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:06:11PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' > Serbinenko wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I thought of a possible solution to the grub-pe2elf problem.  It seems that > >> it is burdensome to produce ELF binaries on Windows, but building PE binaries > >> or even PE/win32 executables on GNU/Linux is not (thanks to Mingw32 toolchain > >> which is available on most distributions). > >> > If you see pe2elf as being too much of a burden we may switch to > objconv: http://www.agner.org/optimize/. It's already used in > conjunction with Apple Mach-O toolchain. It's not a GNU project but is > licensed under GPL. I don't understand this. Why is a requirement to install GNU binutils unreasonable, whereas a requirement to install objconv is not? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."