Successfull Build of gcc on Cygwin WinXp SP2

[James Tebneff]

On 5/1/07, Aaron Gray <angray@beeb.net> wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> > Successfully built latest gcc on Win XP SP2 with cvs built cygwin.
>
> I was wondering whether you could help to get me to the same point please.
>
> > $ cygcheck -V
> > cygcheck version 1.94
> > System Checker for Cygwin
> > Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Red Hat,
> > Inc.
> > Compiled on Apr 17 2007
> >
> > (It was actually compiled  on 23/04/2007)
>
> First up I am getting cygcheck giving me :-
>
> Cygcheck version 1.90
> Compiled on Jan 31 2007
>
> How do I get a later version of Cygwin ?

To build the latest cvs cygwin use
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin
 section 18

You will need to use Dave Korns patch for newlib.

http://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2007/msg00292.html

Then gcc 4.3.X will bootstrap OK.

Regards,

JT


>
> > $ ./g++ -v
> > Using built-in specs.
> > Target: i686-pc-cygwin
> > Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/cygdrive/c/beta
> > --enable-languages=c,c++
> > Thread model: single
> > gcc version 4.3.0 20070424 (experimental)
>
> Hope you do not mind helping me reproduce these results.
>
> I am working on the LLVM project and am hoping to get Cygwin back as a
> platform for LLVM development.
>
> Aaron
>
>