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Re: Why are cygwin files (exe. dlls etc. ) not version stamped on Windows?
- From: VÃclav Haisman <v dot haisman at sh dot cvut dot cz>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 14:12:48 +0200
- Subject: Re: Why are cygwin files (exe. dlls etc. ) not version stamped on Windows?
- References: <g0ecks$8ud$1@ger.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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qa4ever@gmail.com wrote, On 14.5.2008 11:50:
| Why are cygwin files (exe. dlls etc. ) not version stamped on Windows?
Because that would involve adding Windows resources to the files which is not
something that source code targetted for *nix usually does. It would involve
patching the source which is what maintainers are usually trying to avoid if
possible.
There are also --{major,minor}-image-version flags for ld but I am not sure
these are the right thing for that (though I have used them to mark Boost
.dlls as 1.33).
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