On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 04:46:01PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >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.
Sorry. I disagree. I am working on this slowly. I'd hoped to have things working over the Christmas break but didn't hit that goal. cgf
