[Mingw-users] [mingw - C/C++] RE: Why I couldn't use MinGW

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By: dessent

"--target=i386-elf" does not sound like a valid triplet to me.  You can't just
make things up for this value, it has to be an existing, supported value such
as "i386-pc-linux", which will build a cross compiler that supports ELF for
the Linux platform.

However, you will require the target headers and C runtime library support installed
(i.e. glibc) which I think is the problem you're having now.  Functions like
fork(), kill(), pipe() and so on are provided by the C runtime library which
is not part of the compiler.  When you build a cross compiler you have to have
this C runtime library already available, otherwise you cannot link executables
for that target.  You can't just say "I want a cross compiler that supports
ELF."  You need to supply the C runtime somehow.

For all of these reasons you should look at the scripts that automate this,
such as crosstool.


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