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Re: Removed: mingw.org toolchain
- From: Lee <ler762 at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:43:31 -0400
- Subject: Re: Removed: mingw.org toolchain
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Thank you
Lee
On 3/21/16, JonY wrote:
> On 3/22/2016 03:12, Lee wrote:
>> On 3/17/16, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>>> The old mingw.org (i686-pc-mingw32) toolchain has been removed from the
>>> Cygwin distribution. It was unmaintained (both upstream and downstream)
>>> and limited to 32-bit support.
>>>
>>> Users who wish to cross-compile for native Windows should use the
>>> mingw64-* ({i686,x86_64}-w64-mingw32) toolchains instead.
>>
>> I'd like to cross-compile to native Windows 32 bit executables. So
>> I'd install mingw64-i686-gcc-core even tho it says "GCC for Win64
>> toolchain" - correct?
>>
>
> Yes, this is correct (I should fix this).
>
>> And then ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32
>> or use some other host value?
>>
>
> This is correct.
>
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