Re: [Mingw-users] FW: Building cross gcc to work on Vista

[Brian D. <br...@de...>]

David Lucena wrote:

> So I will have to download the latest mingw from its svn server, change the io.h, get the latest
> gcc also from svn server and build it using for example stock binary version of gcc 3.4.5 adding
> the spoken preprocessor defines to the corresponding flags. That would be enough for C, C++?

I don't quite understand what you're asking here.

MinGW uses CVS, and doesn't have a SVN server, and even if it did, you
don't need to use it.  You can apply the patch directly to your
installed io.h file (in /mingw/include).  

If you want to re-build the MinGW 3.4.5 gcc, then like I said use the
gcc source tarballs at the sourceforge download area.  You should not
try to build the stock FSF gcc 3.4.5, that would just give you a
somewhat broken compiler without the MinGW-local patches.  Only if you
want to track current development (e.g. 4.3) would you need to get
anything from source control, and as I said in the last email I don't
think you should do this if your goal is a stable gcc or you're new at
this.

Brian