From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mumit Khan To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Cc: Brendan Simon , "Insight (GDB GUI)" Subject: Re: Canadian build of Insight Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 20:39:00 -0000 Message-id: <199908180338.WAA11166@mercury.xraylith.wisc.edu> References: <19990817230106.C2983@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-q3/msg00053.html Chris Faylor writes: > > I'm not sure why you're not just downloading the prebuilt binaries > from Mumit's site. It would save you a lot of time, it seems. > I believe Brendan is looking at supporting other targets, so needs to build it locally. Brendan, the easiest way to get the runtime support is find a machine with Cygwin installed, and just grab the includes and libraries from /Cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/{include,lib} and you should be all set. If you want to build it locally without having to download the whole bit, here's how (untested, but the basics are there ;-): download the following "split" components from sourceware Cygwin site[1]: toplevel.tar.bz2 config.tar.gz2 etc.tar.gz include.tar.gz libiberty.tar.gz newlib.tar.gz winsup.tar.gz [1] ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/cygwin-latest/src-by-top-dir/ Now unpack all of this in some directory, say cygwin-b20 and build/install using your cross-compiler. Of course, unless you already have cross compiler going, there may be a chicken and egg problem -- to build the cross-compiler, you need the runtime; to build the runtime, you need to the cross-compiler. If you already have a cross-compiler, you should already have the runtime, right? Since you may need termcap, also download the libtermcap.tar.bz2, which has some modifications to support "cygwin" terminal type. Regards, Mumit