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Re: Support for NT based OS on ARM.
> >> Would you be willing to consider supporting the PE object formats on the
> >> ARM based port of ReactOS?
> >
> > I'd really rather not. You should be using an EABI based target and a
> > postlinker, like SymbianOS does.
> >
> > See
> > http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.subset.swdev.
> >abi/index.html
>
> OK, but the question was prompted by the availability of an 'incomplete'
> ARM based NT clone in the ReactOS source tree,
> In order to build it, some tools must exist... possibly tweaked ones.
My answer still stands. This is a new target with no backwards compatibility
constraints, so not using the EABI would IMO be silly.
You might be able to hack something together, maybe based on the bitrotten
windows CE support, but I'd expect it to just cause you more pain in the long
run.
Paul