Re: OBJ and EXE and cross-compilation (Was: AC_OBJEXT again)

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Mo DeJong <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> > --- Mo DeJong <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > 
> > > But would this still work if I wanted to compile with
> > > the mingw compiler under Cygwin? The mingw native
> > > compiler is also named gcc, so what --host triple
> > > would I need to pass to the configure script? It
> > > seems like I would need to pass something for the
> > > --host argument, otherwise the configure script
> > > would not think it was a cross compile. Is this
> > > even a cross compile? Well sort of. (ugh)
> > > 
> > 
> > You would need to
> >   CC='gcc -mno-cygwin' configure --host=i386-mingw32msvc
> 
> Actually, that is yet another wrinkle. I was talking
> about using the mingw compiler, not the Cygwin compiler
> in mingw mode. In some cases, you just can't use
> the Cygwin gcc in mingw mode. For example, C++ code
> can not be compiled with Cygwin in mingw mode without
> linking to the Cygwin c++ lib (which needs cygwin1.dll).
> 
> Me thinks that all of this nastiness is the reason that
> AC_CYGWIN was created in the first place. You just
> can't figure out what mode the Cygwin compiler is in
> by looking at the output of uname. You need to actually
> compile something, since the compiler's mode can depend
> on the CFLAGS. I guess the question is, should we
> try to compile something and the set the $host if the
> user did not, or do we just expect that the user is
> going to pass the correct --host?
> 

Expect the user to supply the correct --host.  The output of uname is build
specific so therefore you must be specific about what it is you want for host
if host!=build.  AC_CYGWIN and AC_MINGW should disappear.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
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