[Mingw-notify] [ mingw-Patches-868697 ] FAQ addition: precompiled cross-compiler

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Patches item #868697, was opened at 2003-12-31 17:45
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Closed
Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Greg Roelofs (roelofs)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: FAQ addition:  precompiled cross-compiler

Initial Comment:
Another precompiled Linux/x86 cross-compiler was
described in an IBM DeveloperWorks article by Cameron
Laird in late January 2003:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sc10.html

It points to a bundle put together by Oxford University
almost exactly a year ago:

http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/

The xmingwin bundle is apparently based on gcc 2.95.3
and binutils 2.11, judging by the source link:

http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/sources-cross/

(Very convenient to install and use, btw.  I haven't
tried the SDL version.)

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>Comment By: Greg Roelofs (roelofs)
Date: 2004-01-02 08:17

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(1) I have no idea what "R" is.
(2) If you don't _want_ FAQ additions, then please don't
waste everyone's time (especially mine!) by requesting them.
 ["If you know of others let us know."]  Similarly, if you
don't know what's in your own FAQ, perhaps you shouldn't be
making bold statements about it?  [FAQ 16 vs. "These are not
Frequently Asked Questions."]
(3) If the bug-reporting mechanism is _not_ the appropriate
means of "letting us know," then perhaps you should be a
little more specific in the FAQ entry itself.  More to the
point, if FAQ additions and URLs aren't considered
"additions" and/or "links," then maybe you could add another
paragraph or two to the footer explaining why not. ["Submit
news, announcements, additions, and links via online patch
form"--i.e., this form.]
(4) And if "links to distributions of other prepackaged
binaries" aren't "necessary or wise," then how exactly does
libsdl.org fit into the grand scheme of things?  (No clue if
_that_ one is older or not; your site doesn't say, their
site doesn't say, and I'm certainly not going to download 12
MB to find out.)

We'll just chalk this one up to "bad hair day," but in the
future, a _little_ bit of checking might avoid alienating
those who are both willing and able to help.  Or are you one
of those impossibly rare projects that's overflowing with
developers?  If so, you're lucky indeed.

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Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2004-01-02 04:34

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1) These are not Frequently Asked Questions.
2) Links to distributions of other prepackaged binaries for
utilities already distributed by the MinGW team isn't
necessary and not wise.  Especially, as you point out that
they are to older versions.
3) It's rather an easy process to build the cross compiler
from the source.
4) There isn't a patch; but don't bother as it would have
been rejected anyway due to my item 1 above.

What is ``R'' anyway?  I didn't see any reference to
descriptions or definitions of ``R'' on the links you give.

Earnie.

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