Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 20:38:57 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: chris.fogelklou@ubicom.com Subject: Re: Clueless about install Message-ID: <20001230203857.A28632@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, chris.fogelklou@ubicom.com References: <3A4E7B7D.FD481EAB@ubicom.com> <20001230201804.A28295@redhat.com> <3A4E8BB6.D14DB9D@ubicom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3A4E8BB6.D14DB9D@ubicom.com>; from chris.fogelklou@ubicom.com on Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:28:22PM -0800 On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:28:22PM -0800, Chris Fogelklou wrote: >Hi Chris, > >>>"The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools and >>>utilities for Windows 95, 98, and NT. They function by using the Cygwin >>>library which provides a UNIX-like API on top of the Win32 API." > >>>Notice that there is no hint of the words "linux" or "cross-compile" in >>>this description. > >Thank you very much! > >In that case, I think I'll un-install. I already have Borland 5.0 and Visual >C++ 6.0, and I'm familiar with both, so I don't necessarily need another >one. Do you know of a way I can cross-compile for linux on a strictly >windows machine? I'm almost out of HD space and I don't really want to >dual-boot the system. I used to be able to remotely do it on my college's >linux machine, but I no longer have access... >>You can build a C compiler/linker to do this but it is not available by >>default. And, it won't be easy if you have no experience doing this. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You can, theoretically, build one with the cygwin tools and sources but I am not aware of any prepackaged cross-compilers out there. A google.com search might turn up something, though. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple