building a cygwin/mingw32 cross compiler

2004-03-18 Thread Ben . Taylor
Hi I am trying to build gcc using a 'make bootstrap' for the mingw32 environment, but when I try to build it using mingw it doesn't have bison and flex installed, but cygwin does. So I'm going to try to build it *using* cygwin, but *for* mingw. I suppose this is what you would call building a cross

RE: using gcc 3.3.3

2004-03-16 Thread Ben . Taylor
Thanks. I seemingly compiled gcc 3.4 20040310 successfully, once I had installed bison and flex into cygwin. I'm going to try the decisive test tonight which will be to rename all the g++ files other than the one in gcc_34 directory, compile a C++ program, then rename the cygwin1.dll to cygwin2.dll

Re: How do I reply?

2004-03-16 Thread Ben . Taylor
Thanks Danilo, I'll give gmane a go. DISCLAIMER. The contents of this email and its attachments are intended solely for the original recipients and express the views of the authors and not necessarily the Co

Re: How do I reply?

2004-03-16 Thread Ben . Taylor
How do I subscribe? DISCLAIMER. The contents of this email and its attachments are intended solely for the original recipients and express the views of the authors and not necessarily the Company. If you a

RE: Using gcc 3.3.3

2004-03-15 Thread Ben Taylor
Oh right! OK, sorry - I didn't know there was a mailing list. I was under the impression that you just sent an email to cygwin and somebody at cygwin who knew the works picked it up, and it went on the mailing list so it came up in searches as a by-product of that. I thought that all message poster

How do I reply?

2004-03-15 Thread Ben Taylor
Nice mailing list! Glad I discovered it. Just one problem - how do you reply to an existing message???!!! Like on newsgroups??? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/do

RE: Using gcc 3.3.3

2004-03-15 Thread Ben Taylor
cryptic to make sure spammers don't pick up my ACTUAL email address?) > -----Original Message- > From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 March 2004 16:13 > To: Ben Taylor; Cygwin List > Subject: RE: Using gcc 3.3.3 > > > At 02:32 AM 3/15/2004, you wrote: &g

RE: Using gcc 3.3.3

2004-03-14 Thread Ben Taylor
> -Original Message----- > From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 March 2004 02:11 > To: Ben Taylor; Cygwin List > Subject: RE: Using gcc 3.3.3 > > > 'man patch'. > > But according to Chris, who knows more about Cygwin's gcc than I do, &g

RE: Using gcc 3.3.3

2004-03-14 Thread Ben Taylor
How do I apply patches to my existing Cygwin installation? > -Original Message- > From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 March 2004 18:59 > To: Ben Taylor; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Using gcc 3.3.3 > > > At 09:50 AM 3/14/2004, you wrote:

RE: Using gcc 3.3.3

2004-03-14 Thread Ben Taylor
nly cygwin provides to a windows pc? > -Original Message- > From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 March 2004 18:59 > To: Ben Taylor; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Using gcc 3.3.3 > > > At 09:50 AM 3/14/2004, you wrote: > >Hi > > > >I

Using gcc 3.3.3

2004-03-14 Thread Ben Taylor
Hi I have got Cygwin running on my windows XP pc, using gcc 3.3.1. I downloaded gcc 3.3.3 release, and managed to build it, however when I tried to compile a windows application using it it compiled ok but gave a linker error 'couldn't find crt2.o'. It gave this error when I was trying to compile