[Introspector-developers] Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] Cross compilation and mingw32

[James M. D. <mdu...@ya...>]

Here is some information about the cross compiler
on mingw32 and gentoo.

mike
--- José Fonseca <j_r...@ya...> wrote:
> From José Fonseca Thu Oct 31 03:16:29 2002
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:16:29 +0000
> From: José Fonseca <j_r...@ya...>
> To: James Michael DuPont <mdu...@ya...>
> CC: gen...@ge..., Paul de Vrieze <gen...@de...>
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Cross compilation and mingw32
> 
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:32:44AM +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> >On Thursday 31 October 2002 10:23, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> >> Dear GenToo hackers,
> >>
> >> I am interesting in porting some packages to gentoo.
> >> Currently I am working on debian packages for cross compilation.
> >>
> >> you can find the project page here
> >> http://introspector.sourceforge.net/dia_win32.htm
> >>
> >> Here are some of the netbsd packages
> >> that you might need to setup a cross compiler :
> >> http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/mirrors/NetBSD/packages/1.6/i386/All/
> >> cross-i386-cygwin32-1.0.0.0.tgz
> >> cross-i386-mingw32-1.2nb3.tgz
> >>
> >> These would be the starting point, imho for a gentoo port.
> >>
> >> Can you tell me if anyone is working on cross compilation under
> gentoo?
> >> What about porting debian packages into the new ebuild format?
> >> Cany you help me setup a minimal ebuild system under debian?
> >> How can I transform my source packages to gentoo?
> >>
> >
> >I don't know whether someone is working on cross-compilers at the
> moment, but 
> >I personally would appreciate a mingw32 crosscompiler/binutils.
> Remember the 
> >gentoo way is to build as much as possible from source, so probably
> the 
> >cross-compiler should be used to build the mingw libraries.
> >
> 
> I'm one of the MinGW developers and I do cross compilation in Gentoo
> and RedHat, but I use a Makefile to do all the work. You can see it
> at
>
http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/gnu-win32/documentation/cross/index.html
> . It should be quite straightforward to write a set of ebuilds for
> MinGW
> cross compilation from it.
> 
> The Makefile builds the cross tools for the latest versions, but I've
> had some problems with building C++ support hence being disabled. I
> still have to check on that.
> 
> José Fonseca


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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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