Re: [Mingw-users] Mingw self-compiling question ...

[Franco B. <fra...@gm...>]

Am Son, 17 Sep 2000 schrieb te...@to...:
>Hi,
>is Mingw source (of compiler & binutils) compilable with Mingw ? ;))
>Of course i have all of needed binaries ...
>
>Thanx ALEX

The problem compiling the mingw-toolchain is not so much the compiler, but the
environment.
I mean - the shell - and all the other little tools - that are needed to
configure the source tree, and set up the make files.

To build the mingw-toolchain You will need a remarkable subset of POSIX
functionality along with some additional GNU - tools.

So currently there are three ways of building mingw:

1. cross-compile from LINUX / FreeBSD or any other reasonable OS.
2. Use CYGWIN
3. Use Mickey's selfhosting toolchain


Ciao,
  Franco