Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/08/21/17:37:37
Chuck Chopp wrote:
> Are there any issues associated with updating applications that were
> included as part of the Cygwin installation?
>
> I'm just beginning to get familiar with Cygwin, and I have some C++ code
> that is primarily being built using Visual C/C++, but I also need to
> test it for portability for use with GCC on Linux and Mac OS X.
> Initially, I was thinking of just using GCC under Cygwin to do the basic
> compile to make sure that I get a clean compilation pass before I set up
> actual target systems to do a full build on.
>
> What I noticed, though, is that the GCC version that's included with
> Cygwin is older than what will be used on Linux & OS X, so I was
> interested in whether or not there's problems with taking an updated
> distro kit for GCC on a Linux x86 platform and installing it within
> Cygwin.
>
> Is this something that should be do-able w/o problems? Or, do I need a
> GCC build that's made explicitly for use in Cygwin?
You need gcc and friends built for the host platform, Cygwin in this case.
Cygwin will not run Linux executables.
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