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Hi Yaakov,

On Mar 12 23:37, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> In response to recent inquiries, I have created a repository of
> Linux-to-Cygwin cross-compilers for Fedora 14 i686 and x86_64 which
> include GCC, Cygwin, and a handful of libraries.  Also included are the
> necessary mingw32 packages with static libraries for cross-compiling
> Cygwin's setup.exe.
> 
> These packages can be installed with Yum and the PackageKit frontends by
> first downloading and installing the release RPM from Sourceforge:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fedora-cygwin/files/
> 
> As these are not official products of the Cygwin project, please direct
> any questions or issues to the cygwin-ports-general list for now.

this offer is way cool.  Thanks for doing this, because this allows my lazy
self to switch to the latest gcc to build Cygwin without having to build
the compiler and all the stuff myself.  Really cool.

I've just tested to build Cygwin with this gcc, and I have only two small
problems:

- libbfd.a and the bfd.h header have to be manually installed, otherwise
  I can't build dumper.exe.  It would be nice to get a minimal cygwin-bfd
  runtime package as well to support my lazyness even more. :)

- The w32api headers are in their own w32api include directory, but the
  w32api link libs are in sys-root/usr/lib instead of sys-root/usr/lib/w32api
  where they belong.  I think this should be fixed.

Other than that, thanks again.  I think this deserves a gold star.


Corinna

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