Re: [Mingw-w64-public] rubenvb's GCC 4.6.2 (prerelease) Personal build

[Kai T. <kti...@go...>]

2011/8/4 NightStrike <nig...@gm...>:
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:20 AM, PcX <xun...@gm...> wrote:
>> 于 2011/8/3 19:57, NightStrike 写道:
>>
>> We could, if we could find the time.  I know i for one have started a
>> new job and have very limited time.
>>
>> If you'd like to write it, though, we'd be very happy to add you to
>> the project and make you maintainer of it.  Join us on IRC at
>> irc://irc.oftc.net/#mingw-w64
>>
>> Well, if I have the PE Programming knowledge, I will try to write one...
>> I have some spare time now, but very sorry have not the PE structure
>> technique.
>> Could you provide some programming knowledge about the large address of the
>> 32bit PE access?
>
> That's out of my league.  Maybe Kai can.

So, to get an intial idea about the pe-coff format, you should read
the pe-coff specification provided by Microsoft.  Additionally you can
read in msdn about it a bit. This should giive you good starting point
to learn a bit about it.
A tool to modify pe-coff flags is pretty trivial and I would like to
do - before we actually implement it - define a requirement list of
additional features it might should have.  We should avoid double
features to objcopy tool, but indeed there are some I see as
interesting.
-  Changing pe-coff flags
- Changing pe-coff stack-reserve/commit values
- Changing pe-coff heap-size values
- Discard special sections
- Compacting pe-coff image
- Change section flags
- Modify pe-coff directory-entries

More complex features might be
- Inserting, delete, modify additional resources
- Resize sections
- Merge sections into other sections

So I am open-minded to hear a bit about the wish-list here.  And then
we might start the implementation of such an new tool.

Regards,
Kai