Re: x86 Cross-Compiler for the Mac

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From: toby
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 03:48

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jonhoyle@mac.com wrote:
> Now that Metrowerks has discontinued their x86 cross-compiler, I am
> left with wondering if there is another Mac-hosted x86 cross-compiler?
> (I know that gcc is available on x86, but it is not Mac-hosted.)  ...

You can use MinGW to build Win32 executables (EXE, DLL, etc, in GUI or
console flavours) from OS X. MinGW is a complete GNU toolchain
including gcc, gas, and associated utilities.

I recently wrote these porting instructions for 10.x:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools/browse_frm/thread/481f7d3e6c021636/1471e5a81e0a94e5#1471e5a81e0a94e5

Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/) makes a top-notch IDE companion - I
like it better than Xcode for portable projects.

--Toby

> 
> Jonathan Hoyle
> Eastman Kodak

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