Steven Scholz wrote: > does someone know of a cross compiler (producing code for let's say MPC8xx) > that > is running natively under win32 (Windows2000/XP) without stuff like CYGWIN? > > I'am just wondering. > Apparently MVISTA released their new "DevRocket" which is supposed to > run under > WindowsXP. So I assume they have cross compilers for "30 processors from 8 > architectures" running under Windows...
They could well be using cygwin for the compilers; they charge enough that the licensing fee for cygwin is peanuts, I bet. But what's wrong with using Cygwin? Answering my own question, it's a bit of a challenge to use cygwin in an installed package because there are fairly frequent incompatibilities introduced in the cgywin dll, so if the user installs a newer or older version than you expect, your installed package won't work. It's rather maddening. And it seems there's no way to 'embed' cygwin in such a way that it uses a private copy of the cygwin dll. - Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
