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Re: Building binutils under mingw/msys?
- From: "Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaron98wiridge9 at aaronwl dot com>
- To: Christian Joensson <christian dot joensson at gmail dot com>
- Cc: binutils <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:33:05 -0500
- Subject: Re: Building binutils under mingw/msys?
- References: <5460e33305061223572c21d548@mail.gmail.com>
Christian Joensson wrote:
> Is there anyone here building binutils (and also gcc) under MinGW and
> MSYS under Windows XP? If so, pls let me know... I'd like to ask a few
> questions...
A few people do. In theory, everything should work out of the box. As
a practical matter, people often have better luck building in Cygwin
using the MinGW target. The build process is so similar that its fine
to just use --host=i686-pc-mingw32 within Cygwin, or you can alter uname
so it reports MinGW rather than Cygwin. MSYS is just a fork of Cygwin.
My present MinGW build environment is neither MSYS nor Cygwin. I've
collected the actual set of tools necessary for a GNU toolchain build
and compiled them, mostly for the MinGW target.
Aaron W. LaFramboise