From: janjaap@Wit381304.student.utwente.nl (Jan-Jaap van der Heijden) Subject: Re: building egcs on Win32 platforms 2 Nov 1998 03:57:50 -0800 Message-ID: References: <363AD33A.4FFA15F7@dgs.monash.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Brendan Simon Cc: CygWin32 , Cross-GCC , egcs@cygnus.com On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Brendan Simon wrote: > > Is it possible to use the cygwin user-tools (bash, etc) but have the > MinGW32 compiler tools in the path instead of the Cygwin32 compiler > tools ? Theoretically, you would be using a cygwin32->mingw32 crossgcc for that. But since mingw32 and cygwin32 share the same object format, in this case you could take a native cygwin32 compiler, assembler and linker, and fit it with a mingw32 gcc spec file, include files and libraries. > > How is the naitive MinGW32 built from the sources ? Using itself or > Cygwin32 ? > I have used a variety of unix based something-to-mingw32 crosscompilers to build native mingw32 compilers, basically because these unix boxes are so much faster than cygwin32. I believe Mumit Khan uses the same method. You can read all about this so called canadian cross in the crossgcc FAQ. But, I guess you could use cygwin32 or even a djgpp based crossgcc to build a native mingw32 gcc. Happy compiling, JanJaap ------------------------------------------------------------------------- J.J.vanderHeijden@student.utwente.nl : At home http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32 : Mingw32 GNU site http://www.bbv-software.com : Solutions for Integrated Optics - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".