[Introspector-developers] Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] Cross compilation and mingw32
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From: James M. D. <mdu...@ya...> - 2002-10-31 11:37:30
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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 ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ |