Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:50:18PM +0100, Erik Leunissen wrote: >> L.S. >> >> For several years, I've been using a linux hosted cross MinGW toolchain, >> as described by: >> >> http://www.mingw.org/wiki/LinuxCrossMinGW >> >> from where I also retrieved the sources and build script. >> >> I only recently discovered the fedora-mingw project and would like to >> know how the cross-toolchains from both projects differ. Are there any >> reasons to favor one above the other? > > I think you will be the expert on the LinuxCrossMinGW chain described > above, since I haven't used it. >
Not really. I'm just a user who is easily satisfied when the toolchain delivers the goods (the binaries) for my particular case (mostly C, a bit of C++ lately, no GUI, no X ...). I know little about the development process for their distribution. > I'll point out some features of our chain: > thanks for your quick response. > - We use ordinary GCC, with MinGW's binutils, runtime & W32API. > By "ordinary GCC" you mean "unaltered sources"? > - We supply lots of precompiled libraries (http://annexia.org/fedora_mingw). > OK. I'll have a look there. > - We add a few extra custom scripts/tools like nsiswrapper and > mingw32-configure. To make things easier to build. > > - We are completely 100% open source. We supply the source (as > *.src.rpm) in a way that makes it easy for people to reproduce our > builds from scratch. Probably also a feature of the LinuxCrossMinGW > chain, but it's worth pointing out. > > - We want to encourage commercial software on top of our chain. So > there are no licensing impediments, except where those are imposed on > us by the upstream library (eg. readline). > > - We are very focused on Fedora, RPM, yum etc. Of course any > useful/relevant changes get pushed back into upstream projects, but > the Fedora MinGW project is really about packaging this stuff up for > Fedora & RHEL. > Do you happen to know whether the focus on Fedora and RHEL would prohibit me from using it on openSuSE? (which is what I happen to use, there's nothing much fundamental about that choice). > If you have any specific questions, please post them here. > OK, as described above. Thanks again, Erik > Rich. > _______________________________________________ fedora-mingw mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw
