[Fwd: Re: [Mingw-users] configure with cross compiler]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] configure with cross compiler
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 20:27:12 -0000
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>

Earnie Boyd <[email protected]> said:

 > [email protected] wrote:
 > > Earnie Boyd <[email protected]> said:
 > >
 > >
 > >>[email protected] wrote:
 > >>
 > >>>I've installed the Debian mingw32 package, but can't figure out 
how to
 > >>
 > > build software with it.
 > >
 > >>>The binaries appear to be installed in /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin, and
 > >>
 > > running i586-mingw32msvc-gcc -v gives
 > >
 > >>>Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mingw32msvc/3.2/specs
 > >>>Configured with: /home/ron/devel/debian/mingw32/mingw32-
 > >>
 > > 3.2/build_dir/src/gcc-3.2-20020817-1/configure -v --prefix=/usr --
target=i586-
 > > mingw32msvc --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-threads 
--disable-multilib -
-
 > > enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
 > >
 > >>>Thread model: win32
 > >>>gcc version 3.2 (mingw special 20020817-1)
 > >>>
 > >>>So that's alright. But how do I go about getting a configure 
script to
 > >>
 > > use these binaries instead of the native ones? I've tried just about
every
 > > combination of --host, --target, and --build that I can think of, and
I've
 > > read http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/cross/README.txt , and that
hasn't
 > > seemed to help me either. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
 > >
 > >>Based on the directory configuration that you give above you should be
 > >>able to just do  `./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc' but that may be
 > >>dependent on the version of autoconf that configure was built with.  I
 > >>would tend to do `./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc
 > >>--target=i586-mingw32msvc --build=`./config.guess`' to remove any 
doubt
 > >>about what the default is.
 > >>
 > >>Earnie.
 > >>
 > >>
 > >
 > >
 > > Here's what I get:
 > >
 > > phil@rama:~/SDL-1.2.5$ ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc 
--target=i586-
 > > mingw32msvc --build='.config.guess'
 >                        ^             ^ should be a backquote not a
 > single quote (key left of 1 on my american keyboard, ymmv).  Your
 > missing a backslash as well, --build=`./config.guess`, your executing
 > the script named config.guess in the working directory.  If of course
 > that script is else where in your package then, you need to point to it
 > appropriately.
 >
 > Earnie.
 >
 >

Thanks. Having changed the command:

phil@rama:~/SDL-1.2.5$ ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc --target=i586-
mingw32msvc --build=`./config.guess`
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i586-pc-mingw32msvc
checking target system type... i586-pc-mingw32msvc
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking build system type... i586-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for ld used by GCC... (cached) /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... (cached) yes
checking for BSD-compatible nm... (cached) /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
checking for i586-mingw32msvc-dlltool... i586-mingw32msvc-dlltool
checking for i586-mingw32msvc-as... (cached) as
checking for i586-mingw32msvc-objdump... (cached) objdump
updating cache ./config.cache
loading cache ./config.cache within ltconfig
checking for object suffix... o
checking for executable suffix... (cached) no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... none
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions ... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... -static
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Win32 ld.exe
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking if package supports dlls... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
creating libtool
loading cache ./config.cache
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for inline... inline
checking for working const... yes
checking for c++... c++
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++  ) works... yes
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C++... yes
checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for working alloca.h... yes
checking for alloca... yes
checking Win32 compiler... no
configure: error:
*** Your compiler (gcc) does not produce Win32 executables!

phil@rama:~/SDL-1.2.5$

Thanks,
Philip Bock


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