RE: Cross Compiler linux->Win32

["Jose Cornado" <jcornado at grandecom dot net>]

Thanks!! I decided to use the binutils and gcc that I originally had (2.14
and 3.2.3) with the target=i686-pc-mingw32.

First I tried to build gcc with the native binutils. I had a problem that
make could not find stdio.h. I modified the Makefile to include /usr/include
and the problem went away. BUT I could not finish compiling gcc. There were
some asm directives/op-codes that were not understood by native gas.

Then I tried the following: prepended to $PATH the path to the cross
binutils that I just built. GCC finally built but libiberty  could not
configure because the xgcc is not a C compiler?

Does this have anything to do with gcc 3.X or I am screwing things up?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak [mailto:blytkerchan@users.sourceforge.net]
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 2:13 AM
To: Jose Cornado
Cc: crossgcc@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Cross Compiler linux->Win32


As MinGW is basically a gcc port for Windows, I don't quite see the point in
trying not to use MinGW for a cross-compiler to Windows - I mean, that's
what
MinGW basically is..?

Remember that using MinGW doesn't "taint" your program with anything
GNUish -
i.e. unlike Cygwin, you use MSVCRT (the Microsoft C runtime) whemn you use
MinGW. The only difference is in the headers and the import library - which
are
free implementations of the MSDN-documented Microsoft equivalents - unless
of
course you use C++ in which case you have the std C++ lib (& STL) as well..
(as well as the usual name mangling incompatibilities between C++
compilers).

HTH

rlc

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:05:23AM -0700, Jose Cornado wrote:
> Thanks a lot!!
>
> I just downloaded it. I am trying to stick to the winnt/win32 config,
> without cygwin or mingw, from what I read this should be possible. I will
go
> over the script to see what I am missing.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak [mailto:blytkerchan@users.sourceforge.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 2:11 AM
> To: jcornado@grandecom.net
> Cc: crossgcc@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Cross Compiler linux->Win32
>
>
> Do a Google for "MinGW cross" and you'll get this
> http://members.telering.at/jessich/mingw/mingwcross/mingw_cross.html
> as second (?) hit - it should help you out nicely.
>
> HTH
>
> rlc
>
> NB: MinGW is Minumalist GNU for Windows: http://www.mingw.org
>
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:23:02PM -0500, jcornado@grandecom.net wrote:
> > I am trying to build a gcc cross compiler.
> > Host = i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > Target = i686-pc-winnt.
> > I have already built binutils for the target. I used "i686-pc-winnt"
> >
> > When I try to build gcc (3.2.3 or 2.95) with the same target as binutils
> ("--target=i686-pc-winnt"), I run into the following:
> >
> > configure fails.
> >
> > If I change $target inside ./gcc/configure before calling config.gcc to
> "i686-pc-win32" configure finishes.
> >
> > When I try to make gcc, it fails inside the gcc directory. There are a
> couple of undefined symbols inside winnt.c:
> >
> > drectve_section and something else that I do not recall now.
> >
> > I decided to comment these two out to see what happens.
> >
> > Make fails again further down. It can not find unistd.h or stdlib.h (?)
> >
> > I am using RH 7.3 (out of the box) on a Dell laptop.
> >
> > Thanks a lot!!!
> >
> >
> >
>
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