X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:05:53 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <1753318796.20100901210553@mtu-net.ru> To: Christopher Faylor Subject: Re: Cross-compiling for i686-pc-mingw32 In-Reply-To: <20100901152156.GA19294@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> References: <50F6B64644A84DE8A7F93B2DE2DA14FA@desktop2> <4C5D82A7.4010703@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <81291471.20100901183518@mtu-net.ru> <20100901152156.GA19294@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Greetings, Christopher Faylor! >>>> With cygwin-1.5.25 I can cross-compile libraries for native win32 by >>>> starting with the following configure command: >>>> >>>> ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --build=i686-pc-cygwin CC='gcc >>>> -mno-cygwin' host_alias=i686-pc-mingw32 >>>> >>>> and that has worked fine on the few occasions that I've tried it. >>>> >>>> However, with cygwin-1.7.5, it doesn't work. >> >>> For now, use CC='gcc-3 -mno-cygwin'. Soon you'll be able to use a real, >>> honest-to-god cross compiler version of gcc-4 instead (e.g. >>> "i686-pc-mingw32-gcc") >> >>Aww... now i'm struck with it. >>Tried to compile http://www.acme.com/software/mini_httpd/ >>Installed gcc-mingw, it pulled up some additional packets including gcc >>itself. >>Then I ran make just for test. Cygwin build went fine, apart from htpasswd >>(there's getline redefined in source), but I don't really need it. >>Then tried to switch to mingw32 and... >> >>$ gcc -b i686-pc-mingw32 -O -c mini_httpd.c >>gcc: couldn't run `i686-pc-mingw32-gcc-3.4.4': No such file or directory >> >>Tried the suggested gcc-3 -mno-cygwin, and got a whole bunch of unresolved >>function names. >>So... am I doing something wrong or it's not yet ready to do so? > Or, maybe if you're in the wrong mailing list. > I don't see any reason to spend much time trying to help people not use > Cygwin in this mailing list. If you're having problems building > something which is supposed to be built with MinGW then you should be > checking out the resources at http://mingw.org/ . It is not "supposed to", and it is building fine with cygwin (and working surprisingly fine, too). I just want to know, if it's expected behavior for now, or do I need some more packages installed to be able to cross-compile applications, besides gcc-mingw and associated. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 01.09.2010, <21:03> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple