Re: host=Windows 2000, Cygwin; target=FreeBSD, gcc3 (was: WinNT => FreeBSD cross compiler (CygWin compiled): is that possible?)

["William A. Gatliff" <bgat at billgatliff dot com>]

Vsevolod:


Cygwin is ok.  It wouldn't be my first choice (it's slower than
running the tools natively on, say, a Linux or BSD box), but it gets
the job done for everything I've used it for--- including building and
using crosscompilers.


b.g.

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 05:00:38PM +0400, Vsevolod Buzinov wrote:
> Antti-Pekka Virjonen wrote:
> 
> >>There's an i386 machine running Windows 2000 which is used for web develepoment.
> >>Occasionally now there is need to compile the product for FreeBSD as well, to run
> >>on a FreeBSD host, to which no shell access is available. 
> 
> Oops... I mean an internet host running FreeBSD here, not a gcc host platform.
> 
> > Please take a look at the Cygwin project. It will make your life much easier. I am 
> > running the Cygwin on my Windows 2000 system and have compiled cross-gcc for it and
> > use it to compile binaries for use on our PowerPC platform. http://www.cygwin.com
> > It is like using a Linux shell on Windows... you can also run X-windows over Cygwin.
> 
> It seems I have not clearly mentioned that I _am_ running Cygwin, but as you say,
> it is generally OK to have Cygwin as host, right?  If so, I will keep trying.
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
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