Re: Compile Glibc with mingw on windows?

[Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>]

Kenney Phillis Jr wrote:

> i haven't found much information on how to compile and make a dll for
> glibc on windows... does it require msys or something else?

I don't think this is possible.  glibc is closely tied to the linux
kernel (or GNU HURD) and porting it to windows would be essentially
impossible, or at least very hard.

MSYS is a fork of an old version of Cygwin and related tools.  Cygwin
uses newlib for its C library, not glibc.

Maybe you should explain what the end goal you're trying to accomplish
is.  If you're trying to port unix/posix software to windows, then
Cygwin is very capable.  But that's not really on-topic for this list,
which is about building cross-compiler toolchains.  Now, if you want to
build a windows-hosted toolchain that targets the linux kernel and
glibc, that is very possible and crosstool should be able to whip you
one up easily.  But that is not what you asked, or if that is what
you're asking you need to rephrase.

Brian

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