Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/09/13/12:46:53
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Dave Korn <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com> wrote:
> NightStrike wrote on 10 September 2008 19:22:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Christopher Faylor
>> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:53:45PM -0400, NightStrike wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Dave Korn <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com> wrote:
>>>>> Well, here it is at last. Experimental test release of GCC 4 series
>>>>> for Cygwin. Please be aware that this is highly experimental; anything
>>>>
>>>> I've been building and releasing gcc 4.3 and gcc 4.4 toolchains to
>>>> cross compile from cygwin to Win64 for I guess a year now. Would you
>>>> (or cygwin in general) be interested in that as another package to
>>>> offer? (ie, offering the gcc4 cross compiler)
>>>
>>> Assuming it is properly packaged, yes.
>>
>> Can you define that? I just tar up the toolchain. I doubt that's
>> what you want :)
>
> You need to read the package contributors guidelines on
> http://cygwin.com/setup.html
>
> We could probably find some way to adapt the 4.3.x build to offer different
> variants; cygport makes that kind of stuff fairly easy.
Dave,
I read through that page, and it's a lot of information to take in at
once. Where should I start? I have tarballs of toolchains already
that are prefix-independent. Can I just give you that or something?
At the least, can you walk me through what needs to happen?
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