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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.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-25 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1593712335.3089083.1603612043638.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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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