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RE: Cross Compiler Unix - Windows
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'Mike Stump'" <mrs at apple dot com>,<karuottu at mbnet dot fi>
- Cc: <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>,<gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:11:08 +0100
- Subject: RE: Cross Compiler Unix - Windows
----Original Message----
>From: Mike Stump
>Sent: 26 August 2005 17:48
> On Friday, August 26, 2005, at 12:59 AM, Kai Ruottu wrote:
>> Is there any sane reasons for this on systems which never have had that
>> non-GNU native 'cc' ?
>
> Consistency. This is only bad if one abhors consistency and
> predicability. No?
>
> I'll abstain from answering the other questions, I think they are
> better as ponder points.
I'll just add this observation:
> What becomes to Cygwin and MinGW, the same attitude as followed with
> Linux, that "producing any apps for Windoze should happen only on
> Windoze, or that when one does it on some other host, it still should
> happen just like on Windoze!", is totally weird to me.
It seems weird to me too. Especially considering that at least one of the
main cygwin developers builds everything on linux with a linux-x-windows
toolchain. So perhaps you have misunderstood the situation with cygwin;
cross-development is certainly possible, and _intended_ to be possible. It
certainly isn't any kind of policy to _deliberately_ make development only
possible on native hosts.
cheers,
DaveK
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