"Dave Korn" wrote: > ----Original Message---- >>From: Mikael >>Sent: 20 April 2005 16:24 > >> As the topic says, I just tried to build the second release candidate of >> GCC >> 4.0.0 on Cygwin. The process itself was simple, but it took some time to >> perform the make bootstrap part, but that was expected. All steps of the >> build process completed successfully. I proceeded to try it on some of my >> home-brewn programs and the tiny amount of testing I did was a success. >> Of >> course -mno-cygwin doesn't work (it says: g++: installation problem, >> cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or directory). >> Apart from determining the proper configure options that should be used >> for Cygwin (I probably didn't use them) and making -mno-cygwin work, what >> else is required to port it fully to Cygwin? >> >> / M > > > Nothing really, although "making -mno-cygwin work" should be expanded to > include "and applying all the other cyg-specific patches", but basically, > that's all there is to it.
I seem to recall reading that the number of required patches for GCC has become less as GCC has been developed. I hope this is true so that porting 4.0.* is easier than porting an earlier release. > > Oh, and to find a good set of configure options, run "/bin/gcc -v", and > your original cygwin gcc will spit out a list of the options it was > configured with. > Yes, I was looking at those. I should've used ---enable-threads=posix for sure. > > cheers, > DaveK > -- > Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... > > / M -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
