From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mrs@wrs.com (Mike Stump)
To: d.love@dl.ac.uk, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: i686-pc-cygwin32 build of 19980628
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 22:44:00 -0000
Message-id: <199807030050.RAA27816@kankakee.wrs.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-07/msg00113.html

> To: egcs@cygnus.com
> From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
> Date: 02 Jul 1998 18:03:02 +0100

> I just tried something similar -- tasteless, I know -- using C and
> Fortran from that snapshot with a B19.1 base plus Khan's egcs-1.0.2
> and binutils.  I had a bit less success so far for some reason.

> I configured --prefix, --exec-prefix and --target to match cygwin,

Ouch, don't do that!

> having to set CC for configure to `gcc'.  It looks as though configure
> should be happy with gcc in the absence of cc, but it isn't; I haven't
> been inspired to investigate.

> It fell over building libgcc2 because of conflicting prototypes for
> __eprintf.  Its third arg is unsigned int in stdlib.h, but just int in
> libgcc2.c.  Am I missing some cygwin patch for this, perhaps?

Configure with a totally new prefix setting.  Also, the target is
i386-pc-mingw32.  This will generate a cross compiler, but it will
work.  You'll want to use --with-headers and --with-libs...  Just
point them to the mingw directories.