Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/12/30/20:39:22
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:28:22PM -0800, Chris Fogelklou wrote:
>Hi Chris,
>
>>>"The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools and
>>>utilities for Windows 95, 98, and NT. They function by using the Cygwin
>>>library which provides a UNIX-like API on top of the Win32 API."
>
>>>Notice that there is no hint of the words "linux" or "cross-compile" in
>>>this description.
>
>Thank you very much!
>
>In that case, I think I'll un-install. I already have Borland 5.0 and Visual
>C++ 6.0, and I'm familiar with both, so I don't necessarily need another
>one. Do you know of a way I can cross-compile for linux on a strictly
>windows machine? I'm almost out of HD space and I don't really want to
>dual-boot the system. I used to be able to remotely do it on my college's
>linux machine, but I no longer have access...
>>You can build a C compiler/linker to do this but it is not available by
>>default. And, it won't be easy if you have no experience doing this.
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You can, theoretically, build one with the cygwin tools and sources but
I am not aware of any prepackaged cross-compilers out there. A
google.com search might turn up something, though.
cgf
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