On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 09:58:01 AM Bruno Haible wrote: > > Btw, should that be --build=i686-w64-mingw32 instead since I'm not cross- > > compiling? > > It is important to pass the right --host option. Passing a --build option > is often not needed. Whether you specify i586-pc-mingw32 or > i686-w64-mingw32 does not matter, since you don't want to use GNU > cross-compiling tools with these prefixes.
One more question: for a 64-bit Windows build, is there anything special that needs to be done other than changing i586-pc-mingw32 to x86_64-pc-mingw32, and making sure to use the 64-bit Visual Studio command prompt? -- Daniel Schepler
