Crosscompiling for ia64

[Stefan Letz]

>> I just want to be sure that there is no way to build a gcc c/c++
>> crosscompiler that targets Windows 2003 on IA64.
>
> Best guess no: you'd need to target cygwin or mingw (mingw64?) and
neither
> gcc/config.gcc or binutil's bfd/config.bfd recognise these for ia64.
>
> The current CVS binutils does look like it has hooks in bfd/coff-ia64 for
> PEs but there's no way to configure this so it's probably incomplete.

Well, targeting cygwin would perhaps work, but this implies that one has a
cygwin running on a 64-bit Windows. Despite some problems with the cygwin
code itself, this requires a compiler that targets the Windows platform ...
and there we are again. :-(

Stefan.