🚀 go-pugleaf

Steve wrote:
> 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!!)

I'd be happy to help, having recently helped move a team of programmers
from VSS/VS build+debug to Subversion/Eclipse build+debug. This
involved writing some moderately complex Makefiles, which Eclipse deals
with rather nicely. It also has gdb integration at least for the native
target; these guys target Linux.

>
> 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?

I have not done that, as I rarely use symbolic debuggers, but it would
be an interesting thing to try...

By the way I recently updated the build-cross script for more recent
MinGW release files:

GCC_VERSION=3.4.2-20040916-1
BINUTILS=binutils-2.15.91-20040904-1
MINGW=mingw-runtime-3.7
W32API=w32api-3.2

The gcc configure command now looks like:

	"$SRCDIR/$GCC/configure" --with-gcc --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as \
		--with-sys-root="$PREFIX/$TARGET" \
		--without-newlib --disable-multilib \
		--target=$TARGET  --prefix=$PREFIX \
		--enable-threads --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++ \
		--disable-win32-registry --disable-shared

--Toby

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> -- 
> Cheers.
> Steve Folly.