On 2003-08-21 at 18:31:13 [+0200], Matthijs Hollemans wrote: > > Do anybody know which are the (dis)advantages of PE-files > > and the (dis)advantages of ELF-files? > > This was extensively debated on the original BeDevTalk lists. I don't know > if the archives for that list are still available. > > After R3 came out with a PE compiler (the same format that Windows uses), > many developers requested that Be switch to the ELF format and consequently, > the gcc compiler. They finally gave in ;-) I think there is an old Be > newsletter about this debate and the decision. Unfortunately they didn't switch to GCC on PPC as well. > The PPC version of BeOS does not use the PE format, though, but PEF. This is > a proprietary format from Apple, or at least it used to be (they may have > opened it up since then, I don't know). I think, it is reasonably well documented. When I implemented the resources support for PEF files (more than a year ago), I got it from Apple's web site. I read only the things of interest for me, but it looks complete. CU, Ingo