-----Original Message----- From: "Aaron Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:01:32 -0000 Subject: What is the difference between Cygwin and GCC releases ?
Hi, Is Cygwin just a build of GCC or does it have a standard set of patches applied, or are the patches merged with GCC at appropriate GCC version updates ? Some of the cygwin capabilities involve patches to gcc. If you don't use any cygwin-specific stuff, you can do without them. I basically want to be able to use GCC releases on Windows if possible, how do I go about this ? Standard gcc (C,C++,objc,g77) includes basic cygwin support, and builds OOTB as a native cygwin compiler: if building to install in a separate tree, copy the /usr/include tree, e.g. for the default /usr/local build, cp -r /usr/include /usr/local/ <sourcetree>/configure --enable-threads=posix --disable-shared --enable-sjlj-exceptions Otherwise, the instructions at gcc.gnu.org are valid. Minor patches to target.exp are advisable if you run testsuite. Time required to build and run testsuite varies from 2 hrs on 2800 Mhz HT box on up (significantly more time than on linux; cross building is practical). For confirmation, and further information, check the archives of this mailing list. Tim Prince -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
