Re: [Mingw-users] Ready to build g77 for Vista

[Sisyphus <sis...@op...>]

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From: "Sisyphus" <sis...@op...>
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>> Oups, I've just seen somewhere else in this thread you are already using
>> our scripts
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> Quite likely *misusing* them, I fear :-)
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Maybe I'm doing something that's just so obviously and basically stupid that 
no-one has even considered the possibility of such a thing being done.

The cross compiler seems to me to be ok. It was built using the Cross-Hosted 
MinGW Build Tool (from the downloads page) with the following source files:

 gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-1-src.tar.gz
 binutils-2.17.50-20060824-1-src.tar.gz
 mingw-runtime-3.14-src.tar.gz
 w32api-3.11-src.tar.gz

With that done, I then created the /home/rob/build_vista directory and 
extracted both gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-1-src.tar.gz and 
gcc-g77-3.4.5-20060117-1-src.tar.gz to that newly created location. Doing 
that creates the directory:

/home/rob/build_vista/gcc-3.4.5-20060117-1

Then I manually created the directory 
/home/rob/build_vista/gcc-3.4.5-20060117-1/_build_vista, placed 
gcc-3.4.5-build.sh in it, cd'd to that directory and ran 'sh 
gcc-3.4.5-build.sh'. (Which produces the errors I've mentioned earlier in 
this thread.)

Is there some other source package I need to extract ?

Looking at the generated makefile, I see:

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# Build and host support libraries.  FORBUILD is either
# .. or ../$(build_alias) depending on whether host != build.
LIBIBERTY = ../libiberty/libiberty.a
BUILD_LIBIBERTY = ../build-i686-pc-linux-gnu/libiberty/libiberty.a
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The ../libiberty folder certainly exists (though there's no libiberty.a), 
but ../build-i686-pc-linux-gnu does not - and that's what's currently 
killing things (once I get past the sys/wait.h problem).

If I haven't missed anything, then I'll give it a break for a while - and 
hope that a patched g77.exe becomes available soon.

Thanks for all the assistance so far, btw. It's much appreciated.

Cheers,
Rob