[Mingw-users] bootstrapping a cross compiler..

[Ron <ro...@ci...>]

Hi,

I've just been browsing the mail archive and see there is renewed interest
in building mingw cross compilers, which is great because that's exactly
what I've been looking at the last few days (with an interest to generating
Debian packages also).

I've been using mingw for a long time (mainly with wxWindows), and finally
we're sick to death enough of doing native builds to build a cross compiler.

The biggest problem I've come across so far with the currently release is
bootstrapping it completely from source..  The gcc build fails unless you
have already installed the mingw-runtime binaries.  Specifically it fails
to configure i386-mingw32/libiberty as the compiler test fails looking
for crt1.o which doesn't exist yet.

I've been using:

binutils-19990818-1-src.tar.gz
gcc-2.95.2-1-src.tar.gz  (patched to 2.93.3-pre1 with the patch from nanotech)
mingw-20000327.zip

I've just grabbed Werner's cpd sources and will look at them tomorrow,
but any other advice would be well received.  I'm guessing someone has already
fixed this somewhere, but if need be I'll sort out a patch.

Is there somewhere I can fetch the latest source from cvs?  The sourceforge
cvs only has the webpage stuff in it..

thanks,
Ron

ron@{d.o,wx.o,some.other.places.too}