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Re: mingw -> linux cross compiler
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 05:34:10PM -0400, Sheryl Canter wrote:
>Ian,
>
>> You can get into an RPM if you have a working cygwin installation,
>though. For example, with cygwin you should be able to build alien,
>and you can use that to convert an RPM into a file which you can read
>using tar. I expect there are other ways as well. alien can be found
>here:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/alien/
>
>I didn't know about alien. That is a great tip, thanks! I have downloaded
>it. I did a search for RPM conversion tools, but didn't find this one.
There are cygwin ports of RPM available also, FWIW.
Alwo, FWIW, a few people have done the cygwin->mingw cross compiler thing.
IIRC, there is a glibc patch required because glibc has a couple of
files whose names differ only by case. However, these days, cygwin has
the ability to deal with that with the 'mount -o managed' option which
allows you to mount an empty directory and populate it with files that
differ by case or which contain non-windows friendly characters like ':'
or create filenames like 'aux', or 'com1'.
cgf