Re: Cross-building Windows binaries using the mingw toolchain

2014-05-02 Thread Florian Weimer
On 04/30/2014 07:00 PM, Volker Simonis wrote: But why can't you install Cygwin and the free Microsoft Express/SDK compilers and do a native build. I finally got it to work. When running on 64-bit Windows, you have to specify --with-target-bits=32, otherwise building with Visual Studio Expre

Re: Cross-building Windows binaries using the mingw toolchain

2014-05-02 Thread Florian Weimer
On 05/02/2014 08:26 AM, Ivan Krylov wrote: > Suppose you are working on a cross-platform bug or feature. You want to make sure that the fix works on Windows as well. I would think that testing the fix with cross-compiled build would be insufficient for the reasons that Volker lists. If the produ