Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Re: powerpc crosstools for Windows built with MinGW?

[Volker Grabsch]

Sergei Poselenov <address@hidden> schrieb:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> After further discussion with my fellows, I think you may be wrong.
> 
> Gcc can be built to run natively on Windows.
> There are plenty of GCC cross-toolchains which run natively on Windows,
> they are configured exactly as I thought:
> --target=arm-elf --host=i586-mingw32msvc --build=i386-linux

Indeed, Simon is wrong. A compiler toolchain like GCC+Binutils+etc
usually doesn't need much of the POSIX layer, and especially
GCC is designed for greatest possible portability.

BTW, as I already said, what you want to perfectly doable,
but completely out of scope of this project. Our toolchain
runs on Unix systems (not Windows). And more importantly, it
produces code for Windows, not ARM. This makes a huge difference
because we require a lot of tweaks that you certainly don't want
to introduce into your own build system.

So please ask the nice guys of the GCC team or other general
cross compiling projects like Debian/embeeded. They'll point
you into the right direction. Maybe they are even able to help
you directly.


Greets,
Volker

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