Re: a.out.h for 64-bit Cygwin?

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 3/10/2013 7:18 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar  9 22:43, Ken Brown wrote:
> > It may be too soon to expect this to work, but I'm trying to build
> > emacs for 64-bit Cygwin.  Part of the build process involves direct
> > manipulation of a .exe file, based on the structures defined in
> > /usr/include/a.out.h.  I'm wondering whether this file needs to be
> > updated before it will work with 64-bit .exe files.
>
> Yes, absolutely!
>
> It's not very tricky.  AFAIK only a single header part is different, the
> one called IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER in MSDN.  Given the age of a.out.h,
> there are also a couple of defines missing, all of them are documented
> in MSDN and available in the Mingw headers.  Patches most welcome.

OK, I'll work on this.  One question: Is it OK for a.out.h to include 
windows.h so that I can use macros like WORD, DWORD,... as in the Mingw 
headers?  Or is it better to just use standard types as in the current 
a.out.h?

Ken