[U-Boot] [PATCH 12/15] Add support for building native win32 tools

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Peter Tyser,

In message <3c6c8b0c8a5a0dacbd19c414465b312cb0256a7d.1236207433.git.ptyser at xes-inc.com> you wrote:
> Add support for compiling the host tools in the tools directory using
> the MinGW toolchain.  This produces executables which can be used on
> standard Windows computers without requiring cygwin.
> 
> One must specify the MinGW compiler and strip utilities as if they
> were the host toolchain in order to build win32 executables, eg:
> 
> make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser at xes-inc.com>
> ---
>  README                |   10 ++++++
>  include/image.h       |    2 +
>  include/libfdt_env.h  |   12 +++++++
>  include/linux/types.h |    5 ++-
>  tools/Makefile        |   15 +++++++--
>  tools/mingw_support.c |   79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/mingw_support.h |   48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/mkimage.c       |    4 ++
>  tools/mkimage.h       |    5 +++
>  tools/ubsha1.c        |    6 +++-
>  10 files changed, 181 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/mingw_support.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/mingw_support.h

Not applied. My understanding was that you would reposed a modified
version. Please verify.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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