Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>]

> Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin
> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:11:16 +0100
> From: "J. Henning Schwentner" <hschwentner@yahoo.com>
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> 
> Am Montag, 7. Januar 2002 17:49 schrieben Sie:
> > Jon Leichter wrote:
> > > - Using CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" is good for compiling, but it's bad for GNU
> > > Libtool, as I have mentioned. I use a wrapper script: CC=mgcc. What do
> > > you think of this Earnie?
> >
> > Your wrapper script is a good idea but has the wrong name as has been
> > pointed out already.  It needs to be named i386-pc-mingw32-gcc and a
> > copy as mingw32-gcc so that when specifying the --host=mingw32 or
> > --host=i386-pc-mingw32 the configure script will find it appropriately.
> > Of course to do this you also need to do the same for the binutils
> > binaries.
> 
> Do the binutils also support the -mno-cygwin switch? 

I'll leave that as an exercise for you to figure out.

> Or can the
> 386-pc-mingw32-<binutilname> files be simple links to the cygwin versions?
> 

Yes, simply symlink will do.

Earnie.

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