On 21/08/2020 15:24, ASSI wrote:
> Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps writes:
>> How does cross compiling for 32-bit Cygwin work? I think it'd be useful
>> for me too - in one instance I've found that stripping debug symbols can
>> take 3 times as long to run under 32-bit Cygwin.
> I don't cross-compile to Cygwin, only to MingW.  I believe there are
> some packages that are cross-compiled from Linux, but with any of these
> cross-compilation options you can't actually run the tests, so that is
> the reason for not doing it for Cygwin (for me anyway).  Also there's
> quite a bunch of software out there that doesn't really like to be
> cross-compiled and needs major effort to do so.
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.

Oh, I wasn't very clear. I meant using 64-bit Cygwin to compile for
32-bit Cygwin. Could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned
before.

Hamish