On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:36:54PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Hi Yaakov, > >On Mar 12 23:37, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> In response to recent inquiries, I have created a repository of >> Linux-to-Cygwin cross-compilers for Fedora 14 i686 and x86_64 which >> include GCC, Cygwin, and a handful of libraries. Also included are the >> necessary mingw32 packages with static libraries for cross-compiling >> Cygwin's setup.exe. >> >> These packages can be installed with Yum and the PackageKit frontends by >> first downloading and installing the release RPM from Sourceforge: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fedora-cygwin/files/ >> >> As these are not official products of the Cygwin project, please direct >> any questions or issues to the cygwin-ports-general list for now. > >this offer is way cool. Thanks for doing this, because this allows my lazy >self to switch to the latest gcc to build Cygwin without having to build >the compiler and all the stuff myself. Really cool. > >I've just tested to build Cygwin with this gcc, and I have only two small >problems: > >- libbfd.a and the bfd.h header have to be manually installed, otherwise > I can't build dumper.exe. It would be nice to get a minimal cygwin-bfd > runtime package as well to support my lazyness even more. :) > >- The w32api headers are in their own w32api include directory, but the > w32api link libs are in sys-root/usr/lib instead of sys-root/usr/lib/w32api > where they belong. I think this should be fixed. > >Other than that, thanks again. I think this deserves a gold star.
Absolutely. I haven't been looking forward to rerolling a linux cross compiler. It's nice to have one from someone who really knows this stuff. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
