Hi Simon, After further discussion with my fellows, I think you may be wrong.
Gcc can be built to run natively on Windows. There are plenty of GCC cross-toolchains which run natively on Windows, they are configured exactly as I thought: --target=arm-elf --host=i586-mingw32msvc --build=i386-linux Regards, Sergei On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:03:38 +0200 Simon Richter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:10:25PM +0400, Sergei Poselenov wrote: > > > So, do you mean the MinGW for Unix provides only the > > instrumentation to build for the Windows platform, it doesn't > > provide a layer to translate POSIX API to Windows API, right? > > Correct. > > > The application intended to run on Windows should use the Windows > > API, instead of POSIX? > > That, or a translation layer. > > Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

