Re: Using mingw with cpptasks

If your goal is cross platform building with ant write a Makefile for the native sections and call the exec task for make.  It will save you a lot of time trying to figure all the quirky platform dependent bugs in the cpptasks.  If your only going to be building on a specific system and need to cross compile with mingw then the symlinks are the only method that I know of unless you want to extend/patch the compiler tasks to add mingw support.

I hope that helps,

Alexander Barker
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On 07/20/2010 08:41 AM, Bailey, Darragh wrote:
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> Wondering if it is possible to use mingw with cpptasks? 
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> Since mingw is really just a modified version of gcc I would expect that it can as cpptasks handles gcc already, however since in some cases Linux distributions use different names for the mingw gcc, i.e. x86_64-pc-mingw32-gcc, how can I get cpptasks to use the mingw one instead of the system default gcc?
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> Right now all I can do is create symlinks under a local directory (i.e. gcc -> /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-mingw32-gcc) and use PATH to make sure the mingw gcc is called before the standard gcc. Which is not particularly ideal.
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> Any better solutions available?
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