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From: Paul de Vrieze <gentoo-user@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Cross compilation and mingw32
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 04:32:46
Message-Id: 200210311132.44553.gentoo-user@devrieze.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Cross compilation and mingw32 by James Michael DuPont
1 On Thursday 31 October 2002 10:23, James Michael DuPont wrote:
2 > Dear GenToo hackers,
3 >
4 > I am interesting in porting some packages to gentoo.
5 > Currently I am working on debian packages for cross compilation.
6 >
7 > you can find the project page here
8 > http://introspector.sourceforge.net/dia_win32.htm
9 >
10 > Here are some of the netbsd packages
11 > that you might need to setup a cross compiler :
12 > http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/mirrors/NetBSD/packages/1.6/i386/All/
13 > cross-i386-cygwin32-1.0.0.0.tgz
14 > cross-i386-mingw32-1.2nb3.tgz
15 >
16 > These would be the starting point, imho for a gentoo port.
17 >
18 > Can you tell me if anyone is working on cross compilation under gentoo?
19 > What about porting debian packages into the new ebuild format?
20 > Cany you help me setup a minimal ebuild system under debian?
21 > How can I transform my source packages to gentoo?
22 >
23 > Thank,
24 > mike
25 >
26
27 I don't know whether someone is working on cross-compilers at the moment, but
28 I personally would appreciate a mingw32 crosscompiler/binutils. Remember the
29 gentoo way is to build as much as possible from source, so probably the
30 cross-compiler should be used to build the mingw libraries.
31
32 Paul
33
34 --
35 Paul de Vrieze
36 Junior Researcher
37 Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl
38 Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Cross compilation and mingw32 "José Fonseca" <j_r_fonseca@××××××××.uk>