Hi, I'm the current maintainer of the MinGW-w64-based gcc toolchain in Debian. I've been asked (see http://bugs.debian.org/632003 for the full discussion) to provide a method by which users may find the appropriate dlltool to use, without using autoconf. Some programs use --print-prog-name to find dlltool and other such tools; this works in some other Debian packages because they ship the binaries in /usr/$target/bin. The gcc-mingw-w64 Debian packages currently don't do this because it goes against Debian policy, and from what I understand the recommended practice is to use triplet-prefixed commands anyway (so in this case /usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-dlltool rather than /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/dlltool). I'm wondering also whether using gcc debugging information (print-prog-name) to find tools which aren't strictly related to gcc is something which will be supported in the future... Is there a recommended approach to use to find dlltool using only i686-w64-mingw32-gcc? I am wrong in dropping /usr/$target/bin? (I have thought of a few approaches but I'd rather not orient the discussion any more than I have already!) Thanks in advance, Stephen
