Re: Building Win32 apps on Linux? (To Cygwin users on the list...)

[Toralf Lund <toralf at procaptura dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:04:01AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
>  
>
> > I've never really paid much attention to the Cygwin talk on this list 
> > before, but now I'm involved in a project where it may be used...
> >
> > So, what is it all about? Where does cross-gcc come into the picture in 
> > the context of Cygwin? Is any of you lot you for instance 
> > cross-compiling Cygwin apps under Linux?
> >    
>
> The intent of Cygwin is that you should be able to take linux source
> code and compile it with minimal changes.
>
> It is possible to create a linux -> mingw compiler, too.  MinGW binaries
> do not rely (by default) on any nonnative shared libraries (aka "DLLs")
> unlike Cygwin binaries which rely on cygwin1.dll. [ ... ] 
>
> To answer your specific question, the Cygwin DLL and it's accompanying
> utilities are all built on linux with a cygwin cross environment.'
>  
Ok. Thanks.

I'm still not sure I see the full picture, though. Does this mean that 
actual cross build setup is readily available, and/or that it will be 
simple to cross-compile additional windows binaries that rely on 
cygwin1.dll, on a Linux host?

- Toralf



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