[Mingw-users] Re: sparc-sun-solaris2.8 hosted MinGW Cross-Compiler

[Ranjit M. <rm...@ho...>]

Hi,

     BTW, the libstdc++.a created by the cross-compiler is
VERY BIG (almost 29MB) compared to the 998KB of the
"native" (official) distribution. The usual suspect
in these cases is debug information - so I specified
"-g0 -O2 -Wl,-s" for CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS, "-s" for LDFLAGS,
etc. but it still remains of the same size. I also pass
these flags explicitly to make (apart from defining
them as exported environment variables) like this:

make CFLAGS='-g0 -O2 -Wl,-s' CXXFLAGS='-g0 -O2 -Wl,-s' LDFLAGS='-s'

I don't seem to be doing anything different than Danny's
"gcc-build.sh" script. ANY idea why it behaves like this?
The native compiler on the Solaris box is GCC 3.1 and
binutils is 2.11.2 downloaded from www.sunfreeware.com.

FWIW, I have also been able create a linux-hosted
MinGW cross-compiler on my home PC (Slackware 8.1),
but that is also plagued by the SAME issue!

Thanks for your help in advance.

Sincerely Yours,
Ranjit Mathew.


Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     Seeing a 4-way Sun E250 server lying idle here in
> my office, I was suddenly filled with the urge to put
> it to some use - so I decided to build a MinGW cross
> compiler on it. ;-)
> 
> Well, I'm happy to report that I now have a
> sparc-sun-solaris2.8 hosted cross compiler (C and C++)
> for MinGW using GCC3.2, binutils 2.13, mingw-runtime 2.2
> and w32api 2.0.
> 
> It built without much of a problem - surely due to the
> great work by the GCC, binutils and MinGW guys! Thanks
> a tonne guys!
> 
> (And also the guys at www.sunfreeware.com for making great
> GNU tools available on Solaris!)
> 
> It is really neat to see Win32 applications being built
> on a Solaris box - for large programs, the build time is
> considerably reduced when you have a 4-way Sun server at
> the job!
> 
> Sincerely Yours,
> Ranjit Mathew.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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