On 3/23/2011 12:22 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > 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?
Ping^3? It's been five months. It appears that creating a wrapper script around cygwin-binutils suitable for use with the mingw cross gcc is *not* "That Easy". Can we get an ETA on that wrapper, or a go-ahead with its own dedicated binutils for the mingw-cross toolchain, like all the other toolchains have? -- Chuck
