Re: [MinGW] Set NATIVE_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR relative to configured prefix

["Ranjit Mathew" <rmathew at gmail dot com>]

On 12/17/06, Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net> wrote:
> > You're not using "/mingw" as the value for "--prefix". I remember
> > stuff not working because of this, though I cannot be sure if that
> > indeed is the problem here.
>
> Duh! OK, I'll try that change. Do I need to do this for binutils also?

The tools in binutils (ld, as, etc.) are directly invoked by GCC
with the correct parameters while compiling. Therefore, I don't
think you need to do this.


> Do I even need to build binutils? The only reason I am, is because you
> did it on your web page when cross compiling.

It's not necessary - you should be able to use the latest
pre-compiled native binutils binaries available from the
MinGW site. I needed to compile it for the cross-compiling
case since I needed binutils running on Linux creating binaries
for MinGW. I admit that I did not really need it for the
crossed-native-compiling case, but I was just being masochistic.
:-)

I haven't used the "--with-local-prefix" option and I don't
know if it is interfering with anything here. Note that Danny
also posts his build script every time he uploads a new
MinGW GCC release and you can see for yourself just how
the released GCC for MinGW is built. For example, for
GCC 3.4.2, the build script is:

 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/gcc-3.4.2-build.sh

You can find this on the Sourceforge.net files page for
MinGW.

Finally, I must admit that building GCC for MinGW natively
on Windows with MSYS was just a diversion for me. I
used to always build GCC for MinGW using the crossed-native
compilation process that I have outlined in the document
that I linked to earlier.

Thanks,
Ranjit.

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