Re: ITA: gcc-mingw-* gcc-3 -mno-cygwin support packages; ITP: mingw-binutils/mingw-gcc-* cross compiler

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

On 3/23/2011 12:22 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 1/11/2011 3:16 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> On 12/16/2010 12:01 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>> On 11/24/2010 12:41 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>>> On 11/24/2010 12:06 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>> Do you have the gcc package now?  
>>>>> If so, I'll download it and attempt to
>>>>> create a binutils wrapper to work with it.  I'm really not keen on
>>>>> having a drawn out discussion about this.  Maybe I'll come to the
>>>>> conclusion that it's not worth the effort but given that I've done this
>>>>> kind of thing before, have been working with cross compilers for twelve
>>>>> years, and have been writing cross compiler wrappers for six years, I'd
>>>>> need to be see it fail myself.
>>>>
>>>> Well, if it's That Easy(tm) then it sounds like a decent idea.  Although
>>>> I've worked with embedded compilers (which are all cross- by nature,
>>>> obviously) quite a bit over the last four or five years, I was a tool
>>>> user -- not a tool writer.  So, creating an ld wrapper from my end
>>>> appears more tricky than it might from your end.
>>>>
>>>>> If I can't make a wrapper then I'll support binutils for mingw.
>>>>
>>>> We still would need the "real" ld to have been configured with
>>>> --with-sysroot[=/usr?].  libtool's cross- support works much better if
>>>> the toolchain (gcc and ld) support it, and libtool.m4 checks for it, if
>>>> the package using libtool is configured with --with-sysroot[=...]
>>>
>>> cgf, any progress on creating a wrapper for mingw-binutils?  If it's
>>> turning out to be difficult, could we go ahead with a "real"
>>> cross-configured mingw-binutils, and then maybe later update it with one
>>> that installs simple wrapper .exe's that munge argv[] and exec the
>>> cygwin binaries?
>>
>> Ping?
> 
> Separate subthread:
> On 1/12/2011 11:41 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I am working on this slowly.  I'd hoped to have things working
>> over the Christmas break but didn't hit that goal.
> 
> Ping^2?

Ping^3?

It's been five months.  It appears that creating a wrapper script around
cygwin-binutils suitable for use with the mingw cross gcc is *not* "That
Easy".

Can we get an ETA on that wrapper, or a go-ahead with its own dedicated
binutils for the mingw-cross toolchain, like all the other toolchains have?

--
Chuck