> On Apr 20, 2016, at 6:51 PM, Andrew Udvare <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 20/04/16 12:58, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> On 20/04/16 03:41 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >>>> According to 'file' the binary format is actually "PE32 executable >>>> (console) Intel 80386, for MS Windows" for a random *.exe file in my >>>> /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/usr/bin > > That is because Mingw is for making native executables for Windows, not > ELF files.
I believe blueness' point here was that with Windows 10's support of ELF, one might be able to build a say, winapi toolkit gtk+:3 directly in Linux without needing a mingw cross-toolchain. That is, linking this back to the original point, it's best to not mix up the meaning of this use flag with the executable file format.
