On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Baruch Burstein <bmburst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Ruben Van Boxem <vanboxem.ru...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 2014-11-03 10:30 GMT+01:00 Baruch Burstein <bmburst...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> I am curious why only a few of the executables get prefixed versions? I
>>> just tried running a certain makefile with prefixed versions of the
>>> toolchain, and it failed looking for the prefixed versions of 'ar' and
>>> 'windres'. Easily solvable (make a copy and prefix it), but I am still
>>> curious why some get it by default while others don't?
>>
>>
>> Because this is a native toolchain. Native toolchains don't have
>> everything prefixed. Your makefile shouldn't be using any prefixes, and just
>> call the bare "gcc" etc. instead.
>
>
> a. Then why are some prefixed?
> b. Is there another way to determine in the makefile if compiling for x64 or
> x32 without using the compiler executable name?
>

To be pedantic, you'll never be running x32 on Windows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI

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