Re: [Mingw-users] Autoconf and uname to specify mingw32 in a Cygwin build environment

[Paul S. <pa...@is...>]

Hello Mike,

Mike Thomas <mi...@br...> wrote on Friday, April 20, 2001:

MT> Hi all.

MT> I'm working on a project which uses the Cygwin hosted mingw gcc.  That
MT> project's configuration differs for Cygwin32 and Mingw32 builds.

MT> I want the Mingw32 branch, rather than Cygwin32, but Cygwin's uname and
MT> autoconf set the build up for Cygwin32.  Furthermore, the resulting
MT> configure script sets up for headers and libraries which are present in
MT> Cygwin but not in Mingw.

MT> Is there some way of getting around this, other than hand editing the
MT> "config.h" and "mk/config.mk" files generated by configure?

    You should cross-compile with "./configure --host=mingw32". Of
course, you need cross-compiler set up for this.

MT> Cheers

MT> Mike Thomas.

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