From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Unable to extract GMP version information from gmp_version :mingw
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 10:19:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9b95fcf-7400-569b-1ea0-fde3ec25afe3@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1593712335.3089083.1603612043638@mail.yahoo.com>
On 2020-10-25 01:47, Jim McNamara via Cygwin wrote:
> I got past the error message on configuring.
>
> I am trying to get past an error in the Makefile now.
>
> I posted it to gnucobol and am seeing if they can assist. It has something to do with a default.conf file is missing in one of the source directories.
>
> I found the button for plain text mode in yahoo.
>
> I will read up on cross compiling in the next day or two. I don't know what packages to install for that in cygwin. I get : cross compiling ... no.
>
> They seem really interested in gnucobol with mingw related questions.
>
> Thanks for all of your help this weekend.
In this case, "cross-compiling" just means using the mingw gcc compilers to
produce native Windows exes that require only Windows dlls, rather than Cygwin
POSIX exes that need the Cygwin dll to run.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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2020-10-25 7:47 ` thanks Brian! MinGW/cygwin. Have a cool weekend :-) Jim McNamara
2020-10-25 16:19 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
[not found] <2111881895.3069057.1603601059475.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2020-10-25 4:44 ` Unable to extract GMP version information from gmp_version :mingw Jim McNamara
2020-10-25 5:17 ` Brian Inglis
2020-10-25 8:00 ` Achim Gratz
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