On 1/11/2011 3:16 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > 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?
Separate subthread: On 1/12/2011 11:41 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I am working on this slowly. I'd hoped to have things working > over the Christmas break but didn't hit that goal. Ping^2? -- Chuck
