Can you cross-compile under Unix for DOS/Windows using gcc?

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From: Skip Montanaro
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 11:27

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Is it possible to configure gcc and related tools (gas, gld, ar, etc) to
cross-compile from a supported Unix environment like SPARC/SunOS to a
DOS/Windows environment? I know gcc can be configured as a cross-compiler,
but didn't see anything in the GCC 2.2.2 distribution (the latest we have)
that would suggest we could.

An alternative is to run gcc and its related tools in the DOS/Windows
environment. We would like to avoid that, howerver, as that will mean a
large change to our source code (at least renaming files and changing
#include references in about 1000 files). We would prefer a cross-
compilation environment instead.

(I looked in news.answers, gnu.gcc.help, and on prep.ai.mit.edu but didn't
find anything approximating an FAQ list for gcc. Is there one?)

Thx,

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Skip (montanaro@crd.ge.com)

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