From 9367988be70dddeeb767518f5e6952aaad8feade Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Martin=20Storsj=C3=B6?= Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 14:26:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the fact that binutils can't use the generated import libraries --- README.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e2ede2f..fbc4fd3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ normal GCC/binutils based MinGW. objcopy/strip for this purpose instead, with a wrapper to relabel ARM/ARM64 binaries into something that binutils objcopy/strip accepts to work on, and back. +- The import libraries that this toolchain produces are in the same COFF + short import format as MSVC produces; GNU binutils doesn't support + this format. Additionally, one may run into other minor differences between GCC and clang.