On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 12:01 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > 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?
cgf, I ask you to remove your objection and allow Chuck to proceed with his mingw-binutils package. I know these would seem to be "identical" to the native binutils, but the mingw- version has the hardcoded sysroot which is necessary for a proper mingw-gcc. Attempting to use wrapper scripts on top of cygwin binutils would be, just like gcc -mno-cygwin was, the sort of fragile setup that I thought we were trying to move away from. Treating mingw-* as a cross-compiling environment just like any other is the much more reliable choice, even if a little duplication is required. Yaakov
