On 12/16/2010 12:01 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 11/24/2010 12:41 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: >> On 11/24/2010 12:06 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> Do you have the gcc package now? >>> If so, I'll download it and attempt to >>> create a binutils wrapper to work with it. I'm really not keen on >>> having a drawn out discussion about this. Maybe I'll come to the >>> conclusion that it's not worth the effort but given that I've done this >>> kind of thing before, have been working with cross compilers for twelve >>> years, and have been writing cross compiler wrappers for six years, I'd >>> need to be see it fail myself. >> >> Well, if it's That Easy(tm) then it sounds like a decent idea. Although >> I've worked with embedded compilers (which are all cross- by nature, >> obviously) quite a bit over the last four or five years, I was a tool >> user -- not a tool writer. So, creating an ld wrapper from my end >> appears more tricky than it might from your end. >> >>> If I can't make a wrapper then I'll support binutils for mingw. >> >> We still would need the "real" ld to have been configured with >> --with-sysroot[=/usr?]. libtool's cross- support works much better if >> the toolchain (gcc and ld) support it, and libtool.m4 checks for it, if >> the package using libtool is configured with --with-sysroot[=...] > > cgf, any progress on creating a wrapper for mingw-binutils? If it's > turning out to be difficult, could we go ahead with a "real" > cross-configured mingw-binutils, and then maybe later update it with one > that installs simple wrapper .exe's that munge argv[] and exec the > cygwin binaries?
Ping? -- Chuck
