X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 16:38:26 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Compiling Cygwin on Linux Message-ID: <20080406203826.GA31365@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <47F1B87A DOT 3050709 AT gmail DOT com> <47F538F3 DOT CAFABB19 AT dessent DOT net> <47F71B44 DOT 8030404 AT gmail DOT com> <47F72A42 DOT C56BC03F AT dessent DOT net> <47F921F8 DOT 473457E9 AT dessent DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47F921F8.473457E9@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:18:16PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Chris Game wrote: >>>I can assure you that many of us cross compile Cygwin on Linux >>>regularly... >> >>Er, why? > >Because as I said it's significantly faster, and because the developers >tend to have Linux machines around anyway because of >work/preference/etc. That and building a cygwin dll to use in a cygwin environment is somewhat problematic. Transferring a new dll to a windows machine and then switching to the windows machine to test it means that you can break the dll and still recover without too much effort. cgf -- 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/