Re: RE: RE[5]: SWT Crash Problem with MingW/GCJ (UPDATED)

["Ranjit Mathew" <rmathew4lists at hotmail dot com>]

> Hi folks, what would be the (theoretical) procedure for getting 3.3 to
build
> a cross compiler on Linux that targets MingW? I'm just looking for a
couple
> of sentences here.
>
> Ranjit's page, which describes how to build 3.2, talks about two sets of
patches:
>
> - The MingW patches to GCC and binutils
> - Ranjit's patches for GCJ

The binutils patches are necessary and cross-binutils builds without any
hassles for MinGW on Linux after these patches. You can just download
the latest patched binutils sources from:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/

The MinGW-specific GCC patches are desirable, but not necessary (for Java)
at all - it is quite simple to overcome any build issues that you
might face while building MinGW GCC for C/C++.

My 3.2 patches are now mostly unnecessary as almost all of these
changes have made it to CVS, except for a couple of JNI patches
and this crossed-native configury patch (Tom?):

    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2003-q1/msg00126.html

(See http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Configure-Terms.html for
configure terms like native, cross, crossed-native, etc.)

If you give it a try, I promise to help you out as much as I
possibly can with any issues that you might face.

Ranjit.