Re: [Mingw-w64-public] The compilation of the cross compiler is failing but I'm not sure as to why.

[JonY <jo...@us...>]

On 7/8/2011 05:44, Geoff Hilton wrote:
> 
> It seems that despite my adding C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\local\bin
> (/usr/local/bin?) to the path it still picks what I understand you're
> saying is the wrong location for some of the files (ar, as, dlltool, etc).
> 
> C:\MinGW\bin is in the path and contains these files as well, in fact
> C:\MinGW\bin has always been in the path environment variable.. mind you
> I'm working off limited knowledge here, but I do find it rather odd that
> these weren't selected right away.
> 
> Meanwhile in C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\local\bin there are files such as the
> i686-pc-mingw32-gcc.exe and x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar.exe,
> x86_64-w64-mingw32-as.exe, x86_64-w64-mingw32-dlltool.exe, etc. (naming
> off possibly distinctive filenames at random in case it helps get a
> frame of reference as to what's what...

Your directory structure is kind of messy, its possible configure
deduced them from the prefixed cross binutils.