crosscompiler running on windows, compiling for linux

[Ranjit Mathew]

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Marco Trudel wrote:
> 
> Any hints on how to build gcj, so that it will run on windows and 
> compile for linux? I think I've to just adapt the target in Ranjits 
> cross-compile howto (http://rmathew.com/articles/gcj/bldgcj.html) in 
> step 2 to i686-gnu-linux.
> But what are the needed packages from the gcc compiler? For windows, the 
> mingw-runtime and w32api are needed. What is the equivalent for linux?

I've never tried this out myself, but at the minimum you'd
need the C runtime headers and libraries and the assembler,
linker, etc. ("binutils").

A somewhat dated set of instructions can be found here:

  http://www.thrashmaster.com/developer/crossgcc.htm

but I don't know if this still works or not.

Ranjit.

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