On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Ruben Van Boxem <vanboxem.ru...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/11/13 Earnie Boyd <ear...@users.sourceforge.net> >> >> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Kai Tietz wrote: >> > As I said before ... "you need to add the target-lib/ folder to you >> > path". >> > >> >> That is unfriendly to the end-user. Note the discussion deals with >> more than just GCC it is a deployment of the client code using GCC >> that is in discussion. Businesses will not like your product very >> well if you have to go configure the client PC using it. >> >> > For the host-binaries in /bin it might be good to have "host" DLLs >> > used by it in the same directory. But this is just true for "host" == >> > "target" and if you have just one "target". >> >> Again the segregation is needed for the executable if you supply both >> a 32bit and a 64bit version in the same deployment. So taking a clue >> from the Windows/ directory sysnative/ contains the binaries for the >> 64bit versions and syswow64 contains the 32bit versions that run under >> the emulator. So MyApp/bin contains the native 64bit version and >> MyApp/bin32 contains the 32bit versions and MyApp must provide a >> manifest so Windows OS knows which is which. > > > Why does this setup need a manifest at all? The way you describe it, Windows > will load the proper DLLs regardless...
For the side-by-side assembly. Crossing boundaries of 32bit SysWOW64 emulator into 64bit native space and vice versa will give you an error. The manifest will keep the two from butting heads. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
