Re: [Mingw-users] Building gcc for MingW

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

Edward Diener wrote:
> 
> I did not ask if you had built it yet, nor am I trying to hurry you at 
> all in doing so. I merely wanted to know if there were a procedure for 
> doing so that an end-user can try which is well-documented. Something 
> like "How to build gcc for MingW from the gcc source distribution."
> 

The typical methods of configure, make, debug the code and try the make
again are used.

> Where do I find those build instructions ? I have gcc 4.5.0-1 for MingW 
> installed. Where in that installation is the build instructions for that 
> release ?
> 

It is assumed that if you are trying to build the compiler you need to
look to the compiler build instructions for building it.  MinGW doesn't
do anything that is out-of-ordinary other than using a --prefix of
/mingw in the configure step and even that isn't really out-of-ordinary.

> 
> The gcc releases themselves do give some basic instructions for building 
> gcc but I have no idea if that is supposed to work for MingW in the Msys 
> environment.
> 

As I said, configure and make should work.

> Also someone else has responded to my OP with a link to a web page which 
> gives step-by-step instructions but it does seem that some of the steps 
> should not be necessary, but I will try that also.

I didn't look.  I've always just used configure and make in MSYS with a
previous version of GCC for the compiler. YMMV.

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