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From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: how to build a Cygwin Cross compiler on linux
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 05:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c43be55-14dd-ed26-0935-44914c6f8ff6@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPa8UMe386YCQAACxrqjH80Y3evAwM1NL7OWU6qF=da+yRZSpQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2017-02-16 17:49, Michele Bucca wrote:
> I would like to know if it was possible to make a cygwin
> cross-compiler that targets i686-pc-cygwin from source in Linux
> Debian.
>
> I would like to use it to compile programs like bash from source using linux.
>
> I already know how to build a mingw-w64 cross-compiler

It is possible, but you will have to build it yourself.  You can see how 
I built such a toolchain for Fedora:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/yselkowitz/cygwin/
https://fedorapeople.org/cgit/yselkowitz/public_git/

-- 
Yaakov


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2017-02-16 23:50 Michele Bucca
2017-02-17  5:31 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]

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