On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Rene Engelhard <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 01:49:02PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> it's even more hilarious than that: it's actually because java can't >> access windows registry functions, so someone wrote a c-based DLL >> which java *can* bind to. the fact that the end-result of the > > Yes, that is the point. > >> mingw-w64 cross-compiler output would be an x86 64-bit DLL, which > > No, it's a 32 bit dll.
yes - steven kindly privately outlined a bit more detail about what's involved: he said that it's actually part of the developer kit. > # file /usr/share/libreoffice/sdk/classes/win/unowinreg.dll > /usr/share/libreoffice/sdk/classes/win/unowinreg.dll: PE32 executable (DLL) > (console) Intel 80386 (stripped to external PDB), for MS Windows > > i686-w64-mingw32-g++ is called. that's different from mingw-w64, then. >> simply wouldn't even run on an ARM processor anyway seems to have >> entirely escaped everyone's attention. > > No. In contast, Stephen said it correctly. actually, he didn't: in the public post he didn't mention that it was purely for shipping with the *windows* version of libreoffice, so that people who perform development on gnu/linux of libreoffice applications can ship the libreoffice application with that DLL *such that* the *windows* version of libreoffice will actually work and have access to the windows dll. > "[...] isn't used on Debian, but it is provided by the SDK because it is > supposed to be > bundled with plugins [...] and therefore to be able to correctly build > "shippable" > plugins using Debian the SDK packages need to provide the DLL." > >> i describe the chain here, and have made a request on behalf of the >> sanity of the debian-arm team that the libreoffice developers consider >> adding a compile-time switch to remove the complete mental brain-fart >> retardation from the software for which they are responsible: >> >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46614 > > To be fair, that all is inherited from OOo. > And it's a non-issue now that we *do* have mingw-w64 on armhf. hurrah! >> let's see if they have a sense of humour, eh? > > If the bug is formulated like the nonsense in this post I won't believe so. your bullying and lack of forgiveness is duly noted. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-gcc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPweEDyN1EbYuENW8Ph=u5xayzmq8_d2mchwrlpmrp7ezkp...@mail.gmail.com
