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Re: Help cross compiling for MingW32 standalone executables.


On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 02:00:26PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 14:49:18PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> I maintain binutils.  I know what the problem is.  If 'gcc -mno-cygwin'
>> could be made to never search /usr/lib that would solve many -mno-cygwin
>> problems.
>>
>I am probably overlooking a lot here, but it seems to me that if you add
>the equivalent of:
>
>-Wl,-nostdlib,-L/usr/lib/w32api
>
>to the -mno-cygwin linker specs in gcc, you would get what you want.  If
>you want me to work up a patch, I'll give it a try.

As a matter of fact, yes it would probably work.  That shows me that I should
recheck things before I make definitive statements.  I didn't know that ld took
a -nostdlib.  It's a relatively recent addition but it is not *that* recent.

cgf

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