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Re: bootstrap for native mingw broken?
- From: NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>
- To: Ross Ridge <rridge at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:20:56 -0500
- Subject: Re: bootstrap for native mingw broken?
- References: <20090122001732.D200C73F12@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> Kai Tietz writes:
>>Hmm, interesting. Because for native builds for mingw (and mingw-w64)
>>using --with-sysroot and --prefix, I get the failure "CreateProcess".
>>Could it be that it is related to the Vista64 OS (and XP64) I am using, or
>>is more reasoned by the pex_win32.c implementation?
>>Because the variant via execpe worked pretty well.
>
> I just bootstrapped a native mingw build on 32-bit Windows XP
> successfully. I use --prefix, but not --with-sysroot. I could never
> get --with-sysroot to do anything useful with a native build, so you
> might try not using it.
By "native", we mean a build that *runs* natively. It's still being
built in a cross compiler, which requires a sysroot.