On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 04:08:21AM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 17:13 -0600, Quinn Wood wrote: >> Thank you for the swift reply, and thanks for the information. This is >> a tangential question, but are the MinGW files available for >> integration with Cygwin suitable for this? > >I'm not certain that I understand your question. There are several >mingw-* packages which provide headers and libraries which are meant to >be used in conjuction with mingw-gcc. This is how Cygwin's setup.exe (a >pure Win32 app, for obvious reasons) can be built on Cygwin, for >example.
FWIW, I build setup.exe on linux with a carefully-constructed environment which just uses your Cygwin cross-compiler but adds the MinGW bits while removing the Cygwin bits. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
