Re: AW: [Mingw-users] Mingw GCC 3.1 linux to windows cross compiler

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

"Dehmel, Rüdiger" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> thank you for your help!
> 
> The cross compiler on my solaris 2.6 box runs fine.
> 
> Some comments to your xmingw32.mak.
> 
> In my solrais 2.6 enviroment I run into the following minor problems:
> 
> - gnu tar must be used for the z option.

So is the portable thing to do is?  Assuming gzip is available for all I
would say this should be changed to:

cat foo.tar.gz | gzip -d | tar -x 

> - the sed patch cmd prints to stdout (I use a redirect to file.c)

This is the portable method.

> - yacc runs into problems (I install GNU bison)

So should the script abort if bison isn't found?

> - the solrais 2.6 sh don't understand the export syntax: export PATH=path ;
> cmd
>   (I use: export PATH ; PATH=path ; cmd)
> 

Shouldn't that be `PATH=path; export PATH; cmd'?

Will `PATH=path cmd' work as well?

I think both syntaxes are portable.


> Ruediger
> 
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von:  José Fonseca [SMTP:j_r...@ya...]
> > Gesendet am:  Montag, 17. Juni 2002 20:14
> > An:   min...@li...
> > Cc:   "Dehmel, Rüdiger"; 'Federico Fernandez'
> > Betreff:      Re: [Mingw-users] Mingw GCC 3.1 linux to windows cross
> > compiler
> >
> > On 2002.06.17 18:13 José Fonseca wrote:
> > > Ok, I'm going to try to build the gcc-3.1 cross-compiler myself. So far
> > > I hadn't felt much need for it, but I feel it's my obligation to take my
> >
> > > own medicine ;-)
> > >
> > > ...
> >
> > Done. I've successfuly built the most recent binutils and gcc versions,
> > and with them I successfuly compiled hello.c and hello.cxx samples. I
> > haven't tested with more complicated examples but I suppose that if it got
> >
> > this far then it's because everything is fine (but I could be wrong...)
> >
> > I've adapted the xmingw32.mak to do the steps I made. I'm not putting this
> >
> > on my webpage because it has some kludges and gcc-3.1 is not considered
> > stable anyway, so I've attached it. The hello.cxx is also attached. To
> > make the test examples just do "make -f xmingw32.mak test" and them use
> > WINE or your preferred windows emulators to run the output exectuables.
> >
> > I'm still using as target the same 'i386-mingw32msvc' used by Mumit Khan
> > before, but I noticed that the distributed gcc-3.1 uses just 'mingw32'. Is
> >
> > this definite and will just 'mingw32' work with older binutils/gcc
> > versions, such as gcc-2.95.3 ?
> >
> > José Fonseca << Datei: xmingw32.mak >>  << Datei: hello.cxx >>
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