Re: [gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/18/2012 01:18:03 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: While I program a lot on my Linux machines, I haven't actually found an IDE that doesn't make me wish VS ran on Linux. Did you have a look at CodeLite (www.codelite.org) ? If you like, I can send you an ebuild for it (but you can install it

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chris Walters cjw20...@comcast.net wrote: I have a question about cross compiling in Gentoo - specifically cross compiling for W32/W64. I tried their preferred method and didn't like it, so I downloaded the appropriate Mingw64 build files, set up a cross compile account, with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-17 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/17/2012 06:41 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: I am not sure what you really like. Cross compiling is a general problem and not related to a specific distro. For your specific problem: it is most unlikely that you will get a MS cross compiler that runs on other platforms than WIN-DOS.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-17 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 1/17/2012 1:55 AM, Chris Walters wrote: Hi, I have a question about cross compiling in Gentoo - specifically cross compiling for W32/W64. I tried their preferred method and didn't like it, so I downloaded the appropriate Mingw64 build files, set up a cross compile account, with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-17 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 1/17/2012 6:41 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Chris Walterscjw20...@comcast.net wrote: I have a question about cross compiling in Gentoo - specifically cross compiling for W32/W64. I tried their preferred method and didn't like it, so I downloaded the appropriate Mingw64 build files, set up a

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-17 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 01:55:25AM -0500, Chris Walters wrote: My question is, does anyone know of any good resources (mailing lists, sites, etc.) on cross compiling on a GNU/Linux platform for a W32/W64 platform? The searches I've run have directed me to sites that talk about using MSYS and

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-17 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/17/2012 08:39 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 1/17/2012 1:55 AM, Chris Walters wrote: that have make files for MS Visual Studio. I have no interest in purchasing Visual Studio. Just a point of interest: Visual Studio doesn't use Makefiles; Visual C++ can import Makefile projects if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chris Walters cjw20...@comcast.net wrote: I am using the equivalent of the Debian cross compiler - without Debian. This has been used to cross compile many 32 bit applications from Debian for W32, from what I understand. I have managed to cross compile bzip2, lame, libogg, libvorbis,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chris Walters cjw20...@comcast.net wrote: Do you, by chance, know where I can find an nmake-compatible version of make? Be careful microsofts nmake is not compatible to nmake nmake has been written by David Korn and Glenn Fowler in the mid 1980s. Microsoft much later resused the name for

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-17 Thread Michael Mol
Mike Edenfield wrote: On 1/17/2012 1:55 AM, Chris Walters wrote: Hi, I have a question about cross compiling in Gentoo - specifically cross compiling for W32/W64. I tried their preferred method and didn't like it, so I downloaded the appropriate Mingw64 build files, set up a cross compile

RE: [gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-17 Thread Mike Edenfield
From: Chris Walters [mailto:cjw20...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 9:27 AM On 1/17/2012 08:39 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 1/17/2012 1:55 AM, Chris Walters wrote: that have make files for MS Visual Studio. I have no interest in purchasing Visual Studio. Just a point