Re: Update GCC in Cygwin?

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Chuck Chopp wrote:
> Are there any issues associated with updating applications that were 
> included as part of the Cygwin installation?
>
> I'm just beginning to get familiar with Cygwin, and I have some C++ code 
> that is primarily being built using Visual C/C++, but I also need to 
> test it for portability for use with GCC on Linux and Mac OS X.  
> Initially, I was thinking of just using GCC under Cygwin to do the basic 
> compile to make sure that I get a clean compilation pass before I set up 
> actual target systems to do a full build on.
>
> What I noticed, though, is that the GCC version that's included with 
> Cygwin is older than what will be used on Linux & OS X, so I was 
> interested in whether or not there's problems with taking an updated 
> distro kit for GCC on  a Linux x86 platform and installing it within 
> Cygwin.
>
> Is this something that should be do-able w/o problems?  Or, do I need a 
> GCC build that's made explicitly for use in Cygwin?


You need gcc and friends built for the host platform, Cygwin in this case.
Cygwin will not run Linux executables.

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