From: janjaap AT Wit381304 DOT student DOT utwente DOT nl (Jan-Jaap van der Heijden) Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] mingw32 GCC 2.8.0 based toolchain available. 24 Jan 1998 17:29:40 -0800 Message-ID: References: <199801202258 DOT OAA22397 AT mail1 DOT teleport DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Paul Garceau Cc: GNU-Win32 list On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Paul Garceau wrote: > On 18 Jan 98 at 20:49, the Illustrious Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote: > > > > > I upgraded the tools on my mingw32 page: > > > > http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/index.html > > > Is there a US Mirror for this? If there is, I am unaware of it. That makes two of us :-) > > I am assuming, at this point in time, that each of these things can be > downloaded from the GNU site here in the US. However, as I understand it, > there would need to be further modifications completed after the > downloading from the mit.edu site before the latest version of GCC would > be useable as a functional part of mingw32. > All patches are with the rest on on the FTP server, same machine: ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/home/janjaap/mingw32/ The tricky part in building GCC yourself is not getting the sources, but the fact that you need a unix system with a crosscompiler to build everything. And, I use snapshot binutils (gas) and those sources are not public. > I am currently considering putting a US Mirror site together for > Jan-Jaap, but am not sure if I've got the available disk space. I do know > that my ISP tends to support GNU development projects. It is simply a > question of need. > Current ftp disk usage: 6999 ./binaries 23 ./diffs/CDK 861 ./diffs/attic 956 ./diffs 4333 ./linux 7090 ./misc 316 ./platform-SDK/def 425 ./platform-SDK/import_libs 742 ./platform-SDK Total: 20122 (plus a few Kb for the www pages) Greetings, Jan-Jaap --- With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC1925. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".