On 2020-08-20 14:20, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote: > On 20/08/2020 20:47, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2020-08-20 12:18, Achim Gratz wrote: >>> Brian Inglis writes: >>>> Does it matter if I build mingw64 packages under Cygwin 64 or 32 bit: do I >>>> have >>>> to match the package being built, or does it not matter? >>> FWIW, I build my cross-compiled packages under 64bit always regardless >>> of the target architecture. No particular reason for doing it that way, >>> but it turns out the compiles tend to be slightly faster on 64bit. >> Thanks Achim, >> >> I'll do the same in future as more address space under 64, frees up some in >> 32, >> and reduces packages to update there. >> > How does cross compiling for 32-bit Cygwin work? I think it'd be useful > for me too - in one instance I've found that stripping debug symbols can > take 3 times as long to run under 32-bit Cygwin.
This is cross-compiling for mingw Cygwin tools used to build Windows-only executables such as cygcheck, cygserver, cygwin-console-helper, ldh, and strace. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in IEC units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.]
