Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/10/09/20:45:12
On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:20:53 GMT, James <no AT no.> wrote:
>What would be involved in hosting the tools in mingw? Would that simply
>mean recompiling the tools with mingw with win32 for the target? If so,
>would it simply be a matter of recompiling (Since win32 console is so
>close to DOS console), or would there have to be a lot of porting going
>on?
>
>I'm going to try anyway in my ignorance, but I'm just curious how big of
>a project that is. It'd be nice to have a complete port of all gcc and
>bin tools as native win32 console programs, to avoid any kind of
>problems like this.
>
>Basically, I'm just curious as to any opinions and information you have
>on any of this. I don't have the knowledge to see what's hard and a lot
>of work, and what's really workable. Thanks.
It'd be mostly a reconfigure and recompile. Somebody should look at
the build instructions for making a Linux-to-DJGPP compiler:
http://www.delorie.com/howto/djgpp/linux-x-djgpp.html
and try to make it MinGW- or Cygwin-hosted. Cygwin _might_ be easier
(especially beyond gcc/binutils), as cygwin.dll implements much more
POSIX functionality than msvcrt.dll does.
Hint for the final step: Use 'windj' as the prefix. windjgpp.exe is a
lot easier to type (and looks cooler) than i586-pc-msdosdjgpp-gpp.exe
Repeating the process with RSXNTDJ brings it full circle, but I
wouldn't recommend it :-)
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