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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New experimental package: gcc4-4.3.0-1
NightStrike wrote on 10 September 2008 19:22:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Christopher Faylor
> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:53:45PM -0400, NightStrike wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:
>>>> Well, here it is at last. Experimental test release of GCC 4 series
>>>> for Cygwin. Please be aware that this is highly experimental; anything
>>>
>>> I've been building and releasing gcc 4.3 and gcc 4.4 toolchains to
>>> cross compile from cygwin to Win64 for I guess a year now. Would you
>>> (or cygwin in general) be interested in that as another package to
>>> offer? (ie, offering the gcc4 cross compiler)
>>
>> Assuming it is properly packaged, yes.
>
> Can you define that? I just tar up the toolchain. I doubt that's
> what you want :)
You need to read the package contributors guidelines on
http://cygwin.com/setup.html
We could probably find some way to adapt the 4.3.x build to offer different
variants; cygport makes that kind of stuff fairly easy.
cheers,
DaveK
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