Re: powerpc crosstools for Windows built with MinGW?

[Sergei Poselenov <sposelenov@emcraft.com>]

Hi Simon,

After further discussion with my fellows, I think you may be wrong.

Gcc can be built to run natively on Windows.
There are plenty of GCC cross-toolchains which run natively on Windows,
they are configured exactly as I thought:
--target=arm-elf --host=i586-mingw32msvc --build=i386-linux

Regards,
Sergei


On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:03:38 +0200
Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:10:25PM +0400, Sergei Poselenov wrote:
> 
> > So, do you mean the MinGW for Unix provides only the
> > instrumentation to build for the Windows platform, it doesn't
> > provide a layer to translate POSIX API to Windows API, right?
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > The application intended to run on Windows should use the Windows
> > API, instead of POSIX?
> 
> That, or a translation layer.
> 
>    Simon