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From: "David Feustel" <dfeustel AT mindspring DOT com>
To: "DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin 1.1.7
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:32:37 -0500
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The cygwin dll is ~ 900 KB.
I think the dll, shell and file utils could easily
fit on a WinCE unit. GCC, etc probably
would not fit but probably could be done
without.

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From: "DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: <dfeustel AT mindspring DOT com>
Cc: <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: cygwin 1.1.7


> 
> > What are the chances of Cygwin creating a cross-compiler
> > toolchain to generate code for (and eventually migrate to)
> > WinCE?
> 
> It's been done before, everything you need should be on sourceware.  I
> don't think anyone's done it *with* sourceware, though.  Good luck.
> Depending on the CE device, you'll want something like sh-pe or
> mips-pe targets.  You'll need gcc and binutils; newlib isn't used, nor
> is cygwin, which building this cross compiler.
> 
> Don't expect to get past a cross compiler, though.  CE isn't big
> enough for cygwin.


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