Re: cross compilation to w32

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Gary,

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 05:39:38PM CET:
> On 8 Mar 2008, at 07:03, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> we have a couple of problems wrt. cross compilation to w32 in 2.2.
>> When I cross-compile from GNU/Linux to MinGW using Debian's mingw32
>> packages (i586-mingw32msvc-gcc etc.), then link mode already
>> requires executing a host program; for example:
[...]
>> This means that building will fail on systems without a simulator.
[...]
>> Does anybody see easy ways out?
>
> Shouldn't the cwrapper be compiled with the host compiler?  It looks as
> though it isn't at the moment...

It is.  With our new scheme in 2.2 however, the wrapper is also
*executed* already at link time, rather than only at run time.
That is the gist of the first problem for users without a simulator.

Cheers,
Ralf