Should I be able to build cross gcc 4.x on Cygwin?

[Ted Byers]

Cygwin is ALWAYS well behind.  But I have had no
problem building gcc 4.2.x using cygwin (I used gcc
3.4 to build gcc 4.2.1, and 4.2.1 to build 4.2.2).

If you need 4.2.x to do your cross build, you can
build it native first, and then do your cross build
(unless your cross compiler needs something not in
cygwin - I wouldn't know since I don't attempt
building a cross compiler).  If you want, I can post
the configure parameters I used.

HTH

Ted
--- Rick Mann <rmann@latencyzero.com> wrote:

> I've been able to build an xscale-elf-targeted GCC
> (and binutils and  
> newlib) on Mac OS X. Now I have to do the same thing
> on Cygwin (ugh),  
> and it doesn't work.
> 
> One thing is that Cygwin has GCC 3.4, not 4.x.
> 
> Looking around, the GCC installation notes seem to
> imply that 3.4 can  
> build 4.x, so I'm wondering if there's something in
> particular I need  
> to watch out for?
> 
> TIA,
> Rick
> 
>