Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Installing MSYS to use mingw-w64

[Ruben V. B. <van...@gm...>]

2010/6/15 JonY <jo...@us...>

> No, not a typo, its GMP configure trying to be smart.


:D


> I didn't have such issues cross compiling GMP in Cygwin or Linux.


Well, MSYS is special :s (see other thread on my link.exe removal).


> Don't you mean --build?
>

Yeah, pretty sure I mean --target (although --host should be equal to target
if the latter is unspecified).
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/explaining-build-host-target-509739/

This tells me --target is useless for anything but gcc itself, and build
should always be i686-pc-mingw32, which it is:

> $ configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
> configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use
> --host.
>     If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
> checking build system type... i686-pc-mingw32
> checking host system type... x86_64-w64-mingw32
>