On 10/25/2013 15:23, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> On Thu, 2013 Oct 24 8:59-0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>
>> Daniel, you can have configure use i686-pc-mingw32 or any other host
>> triplet by specifying it in your environment rather than on the
>> command line. Then config.guess doesn't have to guess.
On 10/25/2013 10:00, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> On Thu, 2013 Oct 24 18:33+0800, JonY wrote:
>>
>>> I'll gladly submit a patch that allows the Libtool script to detect
>>> the MSYS shell at invocation time using ${BASH_VERSINFO[5]}, if
>>> that's th
On 10/24/2013 14:04, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> On Wed, 2013 Oct 23 7:55-0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>
>> JonY you forget to mention that what Daniel is trying to do has
>> already been tried once and long since abandoned in favor of using a
>> cross compiler
On 10/24/2013 13:58, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> On Wed, 2013 Oct 23 18:05+0800, JonY wrote:
>>>
>>> I never suggested replacing Cygwin-GCC with MinGW-GCC
>>
>> You just did, CC=i686-pc-mingw32-gcc, they are NOT drop-in
>> replacements.
>
> I'm aw
On 10/23/2013 19:55, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:09 AM, JonY wrote:
>> On 10/23/2013 13:49, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
>>> It's a situation where the two "platforms" are not all that different---
>>> the system can run binaries from both
On 10/23/2013 13:49, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> It's a situation where the two "platforms" are not all that different---
> the system can run binaries from both---and avoiding the need to
> rigorously cross-compile from one to the other is a big convenience.
>
> Obviously, Cygwin vs. MinGW program
On 10/23/2013 13:53, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> On Tue, 2013 Oct 22 17:38+0800, JonY wrote:
>>
>> This has nothing to do with MSYS vs Cygwin, your whole patch is messed
>> up, it needs to be shot down and burned like the bad idea it is.
>> Cygwin ships a CROSS C
On 10/22/2013 09:43, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> On Mon, 2013 Oct 21 18:13+0800, JonY wrote:
>>
>> Do not confuse Cygwin and MSYS, they are not interchangeable.
>
> I know about MSYS; it's a good development environment, but not a
> complete system, and a lot le
On 10/21/2013 09:50, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Among the many packages Cygwin provides are MinGW builds of GCC and the
> associated libraries and tools, making this a convenient alternative to
> MSYS and the packages provided directly by the MinGW project.
>
> When one is using the Mi
