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Re: gcc4: next release (Dave Korn we need you)


On 7/7/2010 5:03 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 09:44:14PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 7 July 2010 18:27, NightStrike wrote:
How's it built now?

With Cygwin gcc and the -mno-cygwin option, using mingw.org's w32api.

It doesn't use -mno-cygwin. How could it? The build uses the latest gcc 4 which doesn't have that option. It uses the Cygwin gcc either natively

Okay, with you so far.


or as a cross-compiler.

Huh? Do you mean that we use cygwin's gcc as a code generator, and turn off everything that makes it "cygwin":


(e.g. -nostartfiles -nodefaultlibs -nostdlib -nostartup -nostdinc -nostdinc++ etc),

and -- because we build in a tree that includes w32api/ and mingw/ -- explicitly add those things that would make it a "mingw" compiler:

(e.g. -I ${srcdir}/winsup/w32api/include -I ${srcdir}/winsup/mingw/include -L ... ${builddir}/winsup/mingw/crt0.o etc)

I *think* that's what you meant -- but it's an odd definition of the term "cross compiler". It's more like: we've tied it up and tortured it until it agrees to act like a cross compiler.

--
Chuck


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