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Article #330Re: x86 Cross-Compiler for the Mac
From: Steve
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 22:48
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 22:48
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On 25/5/05 04:48, in article 1116992890.824483.56310@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "toby" <toby@telegraphics.com.au> wrote: > > > 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/t > hread/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 > Toby, My company has decided to look at porting our code to MinGW, and thanks to your build_cross.sh script it looks like we can stick with Macs, and it's going to be a bit easier than we anticipated! (But we still have to get our heads around make files!!) The only thing that seems to be missing from the toolset is gdb. Have you had any success in remote debugging OS X host -> Windows target? Is it simple to do? -- Cheers. Steve Folly.
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