Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW/mingw32 subdirectory question...

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

Igor Mikolic-Torreira wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have always worked with mingw installed component-wise.  My colleague 
> works with the MinGW-2.0.0 "all-in-one" installation.
> 
> I recently noticed that he has a mingw32 subdirectory within his MinGW 
> directory.  The mingw32 directory includes a bin subdirectory containing 
> a few basic tools such as ar.exe, as.exe (these appear to duplicate 
> *.exes in the MinGW/bin directory); and a lib subdirectory containing 
> the ldscripts.
> 
> In my hand-made, component-wise mingw installation, I only have the main 
> bin directory (which has the  *.exes that appear in the mingw32/bin 
> directory) and I have ldscripts in the main lib directory (i.e., in 
> MinGW/lib instead of MinGW/mingw32/lib).
> 
> Everything has always worked great for me.  But will this bite some 
> day?  

It's one of those, maybe types.  If you plan to do cross compile builds 
at any point then, yes, otherwise no.

> Do I need a mingw32 subdirectory with bin and lib?  And if so, why 
> duplicate ar.exe, as.exe, etc in both bin and mingw32/bin?
> 

Because that's the way that the configury for GCC installs it and the 
way the developers of GCC expect it for cross tooling support.

Earnie.