Re: [gentoo-dev] Cross compilation and mingw32

[José Fonseca]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:32:44AM +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
>On Thursday 31 October 2002 10:23, James Michael DuPont wrote:
>> Dear GenToo hackers,
>>
>> I am interesting in porting some packages to gentoo.
>> Currently I am working on debian packages for cross compilation.
>>
>> you can find the project page here
>> http://introspector.sourceforge.net/dia_win32.htm
>>
>> Here are some of the netbsd packages
>> that you might need to setup a cross compiler :
>> http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/mirrors/NetBSD/packages/1.6/i386/All/
>> cross-i386-cygwin32-1.0.0.0.tgz
>> cross-i386-mingw32-1.2nb3.tgz
>>
>> These would be the starting point, imho for a gentoo port.
>>
>> Can you tell me if anyone is working on cross compilation under gentoo?
>> What about porting debian packages into the new ebuild format?
>> Cany you help me setup a minimal ebuild system under debian?
>> How can I transform my source packages to gentoo?
>>
>
>I don't know whether someone is working on cross-compilers at the moment, but
>I personally would appreciate a mingw32 crosscompiler/binutils. Remember the
>gentoo way is to build as much as possible from source, so probably the
>cross-compiler should be used to build the mingw libraries.
>

I'm one of the MinGW developers and I do cross compilation in Gentoo
and RedHat, but I use a Makefile to do all the work. You can see it at
http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/gnu-win32/documentation/cross/index.html
. It should be quite straightforward to write a set of ebuilds for MinGW
cross compilation from it.

The Makefile builds the cross tools for the latest versions, but I've
had some problems with building C++ support hence being disabled. I
still have to check on that.

José Fonseca