Re: [Nasm-devel] Re: cygwin NASM lags behind

[Jim <jbu...@gr...>]

> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Building a Cygwin NASM is really just about having a Windoze box,
>
> Check.
>
> > downloading Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/)
>
> Check.

What about - add gcc, ( auto adds glibc-devel), binutils, automake,
autoconf....

they don't come with the setup by default.... I asked them to - but they
said that it was just a few people that ever used the compiler anyhow so the
default configuration just gives like bash and junk...

would also be good to make sure that the cygwin nasm build does NOT use
cygwin.dll (-mno-cygwin as a compile option).

>
> > and build it like you would
> > build it on a Unix system (./configure && make).
>
> "./configure" got me an error message: "cannot run C compiled programs"
> (???!!!), and a suggestion that if I meant to cross-compile, I should
> use "--host". I don't think I *do* want to cross-compile, do I? Anyway,
> I tried "./configure --host=i386", and configure ran - sloppily - and
> produced a Makefile. "make" seemed to compile nasm - produced
> "NASM.EXE"... but I can't get any output at all out of the thing. A
> hex-dump indicates that it's a djgpp build - reference to "cwsdpmi.exe"
> in there... I'm not going to upload it!
>
> Anybody else? If nobody uses Cygwin, I can see why - makes Unix look
> user-friendly, makes Windows look fast. Horrid experience!
>
> Best,
> Frank
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