Compiling Cygwin on Linux

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:18:16PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Chris Game wrote:
>>>I can assure you that many of us cross compile Cygwin on Linux
>>>regularly...
>>
>>Er, why?
>
>Because as I said it's significantly faster, and because the developers
>tend to have Linux machines around anyway because of
>work/preference/etc.

That and building a cygwin dll to use in a cygwin environment is
somewhat problematic.  Transferring a new dll to a windows machine and
then switching to the windows machine to test it means that you can
break the dll and still recover without too much effort.

cgf

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