From: Earnie B. <ear...@ya...> - 2002-11-08 15:12:22
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Goszczynski, Piotr wrote: > To my taste ultimate automagic would consist of MSYS bash and MinGW gcc > only and everything else rebuild out of original GNU sources. Possible. > This would > be really minimalist and would require no conversion. > One missing link to do so - totally external, not POSIX path restrained > perl - looks promising so far. Are there any other obstacles (pardon my > ignorance since I am relatively fresh to these problems) ? Fork, non-blocking IO, other POSIX style interprocess communication, inode dependencies, just to list a few. > My other objective for MSYS is to build within this environment > cross-compiler(s) for microprocessor(s) and then follow up with embedded > system development. At this time I am after ARM. Can I use MinGW gcc > source distribution to do so or should I tap to original GNU source code > for gcc ? The MinGW gcc contains the source from the original with appropriate cpp filters. > How to build just a compiler without all this unnecessary ( > for embedded system )extras like libraries ? Undiscovered territory. > I would appreciate any help. As much as possible. Thanks for your help. Earnie. |