Providing cygwin1.dll in both 32- and 64-bit versions
Thomas Nilefalk
thomas@junovagen.se
Thu Feb 2 21:13:00 GMT 2017
I'm cross-compiling on Cygwin64 to 32-bit. Or rather I'm trying to
figure out what compiling to 32-bits on a Cygwin64 actually means.
Using 'gcc -m32' causes a lot of "skipping incompatible ..." for a lot
of libraries, so obviously ld then looks for the 32-bit libraries in the
"wrong" place.
Using 'i686-pc-cygwin-gcc' creates an executable but that is un-runnable
in a Cygwin64 environment because the cygwin1.dll is a 64-bit version
and not compatible with the produced executable. A cygwin32 DLL needs to
be put first in the path to make the executable run.
Is this by design? At least it seems to me that 'gcc -m32' could be
taken to mean 'create an executable in the current ABI-environment
(cygwin64) which uses a 32-bit architecture'. I'm not sure that makes
sense or is even possible, but if it is not, then the question becomes
'how can I make a 32-bit compiled cygwin program run under cygwin64'?
One way to answer that is to say "export
PATH=<path_to_32_bit_cygwin1.dll>:$PATH" but that requires installing
cygwin32.
I understand that could be the semantics of "cross-compilation" (you
could compile for any platform, and can't expect that to run in your
host environment), but then I'd like to propose that "-m32" should/could
mean compile for host using 32-bit restrictions.
Which part of this is true? Is there a bug with "-m32" or am I just
misunderstanding everything?
/Thomas
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