Re: [zlib PATCH 1 of 3] complibs/zlib: Add zlib support for binutils and gdb

[Ralf Corsepius <ralf dot corsepius at rtems dot org>]

On 11/24/2011 08:20 AM, Zhenqiang Chen wrote:
> On 24 November 2011 15:10, Ralf Corsepius<ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>  wrote:
> > On 11/24/2011 07:58 AM, Zhenqiang Chen wrote:
> > > On 24 November 2011 13:45, Ralf Corsepius<ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>
> > >   wrote:
> > > > On 11/24/2011 06:31 AM, Zhenqiang Chen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > What's about canadian build for windows host?
> > > > >
> > > > > Do we have window version of zlib, expat and libiconv?
> > > >
> > > > Cygwin has all of these (c.f. ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwin/release)
> > > >
> > > > I am using these binaries to Canadian Cross build packages target Cygwin
> > > > on
> > > > Fedora (I am not using crosstools).
> > >
> > > Yes. Cygwin has all the libraries. But for the binarytools, users can
> > > install and run on windows, not necessary on cygwin.
> >
> > You asked about Cygwin, ... Just unpackage these binaries into your
> > cross-toolchains sysroot and you're basically done.
> >
> > ... native Windows (or mingw) is a completely different (and much difficult)
> > topic.
>
> We want to support native Windows  (or mingw).

Good luck.

The fundmental problem with mingw is it lacking a "complete distribution".

My approach to supplying Mingw packages is to use Fedora's 
linux->mingw32 toolchain, which contains most packages/libraries one 
needs for building mingw32 hosted cross-compilers Canadian-Cross
(I build mingw32->*-rtems* cross toolchain packages on Fedora).

The problem with this approach is on the Windows side. There one would 
need a windows installer which would contain/collect the required dlls 
etc. ... This is something I don't have.

Ralf





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