Re: [zlib PATCH 1 of 3] complibs/zlib: Add zlib support for binutils and gdb

[Michael Hope <michael dot hope at linaro dot org>]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:38 AM, Ralf Corsepius
<ralf.corsepius@rtems.org> wrote:
> On 11/24/2011 08:20 AM, Zhenqiang Chen wrote:
>>
>> On 24 November 2011 15:10, Ralf Corsepius<ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>
>> ?wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/24/2011 07:58 AM, Zhenqiang Chen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 24 November 2011 13:45, Ralf Corsepius<ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>
>>>> ?wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/24/2011 06:31 AM, Zhenqiang Chen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> What's about canadian build for windows host?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do we have window version of zlib, expat and libiconv?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cygwin has all of these (c.f. ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwin/release)
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using these binaries to Canadian Cross build packages target
>>>>> Cygwin
>>>>> on
>>>>> Fedora (I am not using crosstools).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes. Cygwin has all the libraries. But for the binarytools, users can
>>>> install and run on windows, not necessary on cygwin.
>>>
>>> You asked about Cygwin, ... Just unpackage these binaries into your
>>> cross-toolchains sysroot and you're basically done.
>>>
>>> ... native Windows (or mingw) is a completely different (and much
>>> difficult)
>>> topic.
>>
>> We want to support native Windows ?(or mingw).
>
> Good luck.
>
> The fundmental problem with mingw is it lacking a "complete distribution".
>
> My approach to supplying Mingw packages is to use Fedora's linux->mingw32
> toolchain, which contains most packages/libraries one needs for building
> mingw32 hosted cross-compilers Canadian-Cross
> (I build mingw32->*-rtems* cross toolchain packages on Fedora).
>
> The problem with this approach is on the Windows side. There one would need
> a windows installer which would contain/collect the required dlls etc. ...
> This is something I don't have.

The minw32 cross compiler package that comes with Ubuntu is decent as
well.  You do end up statically linking everything though which is a
pitty.

-- Michael

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