Re: finding recipe for x86_64 or x86 or Cygwin or MingW or whatever will

Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
> 
>     I installed Cygwin onto an Alienware M17x-R3 running Windows 7 and
> also downloaded various files from http://www.gnu-pascal.de/ to add
> Pascal to the list of compilers.
<snip>
> However I have been unable to install Gnu Pascal Compiler although I
> believe I have followed the instructions in the manual.  I have tried
> both software installation and direct use of a binary file.
> 
> I have gpc source files, too.  I also downloaded the source files for
> gcc 3.2.3 and gcc 3.4.3 because the manual seems to indicate that I
> should compile against a version that produces a standard compiler.  I
> have the gpc source file:  gpc-20060325/.
> 
> I got as far as the makeinfo file in the manual.  Here is the tail of a
> verbose output from makeinfo:

<snip> 
> *** Configuration x86_64-unknown-cygwin not supported

This say it all: 64-bit support on Windows is relatively recent,
and not present in gcc-3.4.3.  I am not aware of any person
that build GNU Pascal on Windows in 64-bit mode.  All were
using 32-bit mode.

> 	Should I specify a different host, target, etc.?
> 
>  What ingredients am I missing to complete the recipe?

Existing Cygwin binaries are 32-bit mode.  You may want to
check gcc-4.1.1 which is the newest GCC version that
works well with GNU Pascal, however it looks that for
64-bit support on Windows you need newer version.  So either
you find a way to install 32-bit Pascal on your machine,
or you do hard work needed to get GNU Pascal running
with newer GCC.

Assuming that you want just to use GNU Pascal you need to
know how to install 32-bit compiler on your system.
If you installed Cygwin just to run GNU Pascal, then
simplest way may be to install 32-bit Cygwin (which may
require deinstalling 64-bit Cygwin and may have its own
problems).  I do not know how good is 64-bit Cygwin
at running 32-bit programs, at least you need to
install 32-bit versions of basic libraries.

Let me add that your problem is specific to 64-bit Cygwin.
I am not Windows/Cygwin user so I can not give you full
answer.

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