From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] mingw32 GCC 2.8.0 based toolchain availab 26 Jan 1998 06:00:32 -0800 Message-ID: <19980126135933.1110.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, pgarceau AT teleport DOT com, janjaap AT Wit381304 DOT student DOT utwente DOT nl Den Internet Services is providing mirroring for Sergey, Gnu-win32 and EGCS as well as various software ports. You might try to use there services for a mirror. See the URL pointer below my signature. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services - US mirror and ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) >From: "Paul Garceau" >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:29:44 -0800 >Subject: (Fwd) Re: [ANNOUNCE] mingw32 GCC 2.8.0 based toolchain availab >Reply-to: pgarceau AT teleport DOT com > >Greetings everyone, > > Forgot to cc: this to the gnu-win32 mailing list... > >------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- >From: Self >To: Jan-Jaap van der Heijden >Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] mingw32 GCC 2.8.0 based toolchain available. >Reply-to: pgarceau AT teleport DOT com >Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:28:19 -0800 > >Hi everyone, > >On 23 Jan 98 at 11:27, the Illustrious Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote: > >> 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 :-) > > Oh, hooray! It's already been confirmed that there is a need for such a >thing in the Western Hemisphere. One thing for sure, it will sure make it >easier to download the mingw32 package if a site can be found And it will >mean saving a lot of download time for those who wish to download mingw32 >without using a Unix shell with a special switch attached (100Mbs download >speed is very nice!). It appears that one may actually be available at >this time and I will be checking it out. > >> > 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. > > Cygwin32 can allow this. The problem is, the more copies or variations >are generated, the less distinct the copy becomes...and not everyone has >the space or power to download and run Cygwin32 for such porting from Unix >machines. > > If anyone were to ask me, I would say that the reason outlined above is >probably the best reason to create a Western Hemisphere/North American >mirror site for mingw32. > >> >> > 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) > > I am assuming you mean about 21M of disk space would be more than >sufficient for mirroring the mingw32 files. I will keep this in mind as I >check out things here in North America. > > Peace, > > Paul G. > > >Nothing real can be threatened. > Nothing unreal exists. >- >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". > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - 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".