Re: [coLinux-devel] Re: Mingw patch for CoLinux console/deamon

[Dan A. <da...@co...>]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 01:06:04AM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:46:20PM -0700, Steven Edwards wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > Well here it is in all of its glory. All 5 lines of it. It works but we
> > (ReactOS team) have not tested it beyond booting the kernel.
> 
> So the kernel really booted. Can you post a screenshot?
> 
> > There are a few changes that will need to be made before this can be
> > merged in and we can drop Cygwin I guess. But I beg and plead that we
> > do this so we can drop Cygwin totaly if we are not going to need it for
> > the Xserver.
> 
> I agree, Cygwin should be dropped.
> 
> > 1. The FLTK console wont build on the Mingw cross-compiler as we lack
> > support for it. I guess we could ship our own copy.
> 
> I got it built using the Mingw cross compiler, but I couldn't test the 
> library because of some linkage problems.
> 
> I've fiddled a few hours with creating a i686-pc-mingw32 cross compiler, 
> and found a bunch of annoying problems with gcc's build - actual build 
> system bugs. Do you have scripts that automatically create a mingw32 
> cross compilation toolkit on Linux using recent versions of gcc 
> and binutils? What versions do you use? I'd really benefit from it.

Okay, I managed to port the build-cross.sh script to the latest stable 
versions of the tools. The only difference is that it requires the files 
to be downloaded.

-rw-------    1 karrde   karrde   14182109 Apr 10 20:55 binutils-2.15.90-20040222-1-src.tar.gz
-rw-------    1 karrde   karrde   13268861 Apr 11 09:17 gcc-core-3.3.1-20030804-1-src.tar.gz
-rw-------    1 karrde   karrde    2723676 Apr 11 09:11 gcc-g++-3.3.1-20030804-1-src.tar.gz
-rw-------    1 karrde   karrde     308420 Apr 10 21:09 mingw-runtime-3.2.tar.gz
-rw-------    1 karrde   karrde    1336713 Apr 10 21:12 w32api-2.5.tar.gz

[10:49 pts/424,callisto source]% i686-pc-mingw32-gcc -v

Reading specs from /usr/local/mingw32/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.3.1/specs
Configured with: /home/karrde/colinux/res/mingw32/cross/source/gcc-3.3.1-20030804-1/configure -v --prefix=/usr/local/mingw32 --target=i686-pc-mingw32 --with-headers=/usr/local/mingw32/i686-pc-mingw32/include --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --without-newlib --disable-multilib
Thread model: single
gcc version 3.3.1 (mingw special 20030804-1)

I didn't try to build coLinux with it yet. There will be more to follow.

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Dan Aloni
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