From: Keith M. <kei...@us...> - 2006-12-04 19:36:10
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On Monday 04 December 2006 16:54, Ed wrote: > My advice, for building native Win32 applications, > > > is to use MinGW + MSYS; that way you avoid the pitfalls of misidentified > > host capabilities, which are too easily inherited from a Cygwin host, > > when you assume too much from `-mno-cygwin'. > > But, if one does configure with --build=i686-pc-cygwin and > --host=i686-pc-mingw32, is it OK then? I'd like to say that, yes it should be ok. In reality, it isn't that clear cut; it mostly depends on how well the package you are building handles the niceties of configuring itself for a cross build. Regards, Keith. |