mingw -> linux cross compiler

[Sheryl Canter]

Christopher,

> There are cygwin ports of RPM available also, FWIW.

That's good to know, thanks. Do you have a link?

> Alwo, FWIW, a few people have done the cygwin->mingw cross compiler thing.
IIRC, there is a glibc patch required because glibc has a couple of
files whose names differ only by case.  However, these days, cygwin has
the ability to deal with that with the 'mount -o managed' option which
allows you to mount an empty directory and populate it with files that
differ by case or which contain non-windows friendly characters like ':'
or create filenames like 'aux', or 'com1'.

Can you give me more detail on this--where I can find the patch, and how I
use this cygwin option?

    - Sheryl