Re: mingw -> linux cross compiler

["Sheryl Canter" <sheryl at permutations dot com>]

I want to build a Windows-hosted compiler that can target Linux. All my
computers run Windows, but I have a Web site on a shared Linux server for
which I want to write a CGI program. I can create the program on my Windows
system, but to put it on my Web site I have to re-build it for a Linux
target. I don't currently have a Linux box, so I thought I'd try building a
cross-compiler. I'm starting to think it's easier to get a Linux box.
Apparently, what I'm trying to do may not be possible.

    - Sheryl


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eljay Love-Jensen" <eljay@adobe.com>
To: "Sheryl Canter" <sheryl@permutations.com>; <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: mingw -> linux cross compiler


Hi Sheryl,

>Has anyone here built a mingw -> linux cross compiler?

Ummmm, that doesn't make sense to me.

MinGW's goal (as I understand it, perhaps oversimplistically) is to make the
full Windows API accessible to the GCC compiler.

q.v. <http://www.mingw.org/>

Or do you mean to make (cross compiler) mingw hosted on Linux, which can
produce native Windows applications?  (If so... I don't know the answer.
I've never heard of anyone doing that.  Could be useful.)  If so, my
apologies for my misunderstanding.

--Eljay