X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44EA278F.2010708@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:37:19 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060727 Fedora/1.5.0.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Update GCC in Cygwin? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Chuck Chopp wrote: > Are there any issues associated with updating applications that were > included as part of the Cygwin installation? > > I'm just beginning to get familiar with Cygwin, and I have some C++ code > that is primarily being built using Visual C/C++, but I also need to > test it for portability for use with GCC on Linux and Mac OS X. > Initially, I was thinking of just using GCC under Cygwin to do the basic > compile to make sure that I get a clean compilation pass before I set up > actual target systems to do a full build on. > > What I noticed, though, is that the GCC version that's included with > Cygwin is older than what will be used on Linux & OS X, so I was > interested in whether or not there's problems with taking an updated > distro kit for GCC on a Linux x86 platform and installing it within > Cygwin. > > Is this something that should be do-able w/o problems? Or, do I need a > GCC build that's made explicitly for use in Cygwin? You need gcc and friends built for the host platform, Cygwin in this case. Cygwin will not run Linux executables. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/