[Mingw-users] Source TAR install locations

[Chris M. <mi...@ni...>]

List -

Sorry for what might be a seemingly simple question, but I'm trying to find 
out a couple things.

I've checked out the links of various people's sites and most of the 
documentation appears to be written from the perspective of using MingW as 
an end-developer, not from the perspective of understanding the compiler 
internals and structure. I've found lots of generic info on GCC, and lots 
of info about how to use MingW, but not too much in between connect the 
dots type info.

First, I checked the project site on sourceforge.net, and in the release 
notes for the 2.0.0 compiler, it says that the MingW documentation is 
located in mingw-2.0.0-doc.exe which is distributed separately. I've 
checked http://www.mingw.org/docs.shtml and I don't see any downloads 
available there. Is the information on the website the same documentation 
as is available in the .chm files?

What I am looking for is something to help explain how each of the source 
packages fit together to create the compiler. In essence, how do I build 
the compiler from scratch? My goal is to understand the structure of gcc, 
and how mingw fits into that structure.

For instance, I've got a source file called gcc-3.2-20020817-1.src.tar.gz, 
then I have another file called mingw-runtime-2.2-src.tar.gz. When I open 
these tar files, the directory structures do not seem intuitively 
compatible.  I realize that somehow I have to introduce the platform 
specific library files such as stdio.h into my compiler build environment, 
but I'm not sure what directory under the gcc source tree it is appropriate 
to place them in.

The same goes for the rest of the source packages (binutils, w32api, 
libstdc????)

If someone could point me to the relevant documentation, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,

Chris