mingw32 target broken [cygwin as well] [didn't know cross-compilers were such an ordeal]

[Adam Megacz]

Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@mediaone.net> writes:
> http://members.telering.at/jessich/mingw/index.html
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/crossgcc/2001-q4/msg00310.html

Wow, I just checked out that patching script -- it's enormous!

Why is it so hard to build a cross compiler? Shouldn't it be just like
a regular compiler build, except that instead of using system
libraries (/usr/lib), it uses alternate libraries
(/usr/i686-pc-mingw)? AFAIK, what platform a compiler binary is
compiled for really shouldn't have anything to do with what kind of
binaries it puts out... it's not like the compiler copies bits of
itself into the output...

Oh well, I'm going to quit whining right now and ssh to a win98
machine running cygwin to do my builds.

Thanks for the help...

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