Mail Archives: cygwin/2011/03/13/13:39:33
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:36:54PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Hi Yaakov,
>
>On Mar 12 23:37, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> In response to recent inquiries, I have created a repository of
>> Linux-to-Cygwin cross-compilers for Fedora 14 i686 and x86_64 which
>> include GCC, Cygwin, and a handful of libraries. Also included are the
>> necessary mingw32 packages with static libraries for cross-compiling
>> Cygwin's setup.exe.
>>
>> These packages can be installed with Yum and the PackageKit frontends by
>> first downloading and installing the release RPM from Sourceforge:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fedora-cygwin/files/
>>
>> As these are not official products of the Cygwin project, please direct
>> any questions or issues to the cygwin-ports-general list for now.
>
>this offer is way cool. Thanks for doing this, because this allows my lazy
>self to switch to the latest gcc to build Cygwin without having to build
>the compiler and all the stuff myself. Really cool.
>
>I've just tested to build Cygwin with this gcc, and I have only two small
>problems:
>
>- libbfd.a and the bfd.h header have to be manually installed, otherwise
> I can't build dumper.exe. It would be nice to get a minimal cygwin-bfd
> runtime package as well to support my lazyness even more. :)
>
>- The w32api headers are in their own w32api include directory, but the
> w32api link libs are in sys-root/usr/lib instead of sys-root/usr/lib/w32api
> where they belong. I think this should be fixed.
>
>Other than that, thanks again. I think this deserves a gold star.
Absolutely. I haven't been looking forward to rerolling a linux cross compiler.
It's nice to have one from someone who really knows this stuff.
cgf
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