On 8/14/2012 10:51, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 2012-08-12 01:49, JonY wrote: >> New w32api preliminary upload, now with mingw-w64 parts. > > Nack. Both mintty and xorg-server FTBFS with this w32api. > >> It contains the headers and win32 and win64 DLL import libraries. >> It does require multilib capable GCC to build. > > Why? What is the purpose of 64-bit libs with a 32-bit-only Cygwin GCC? >
Like Corinna says, 64bit Cygwin has to start somewhere. >> Yaakov: >> Can cygport implement a new inherit where it is similar to cross, except >> it uses --prefix=/usr? Right now, I'm setting CC/CXX manually to get >> around it. > > To bootstrap, you could just unset CC/CXX and configure with > --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32. But once the new w32api is installed, if you > configure with --disable-lib64, this should be buildable with Cygwin's > native GCC. > I did not think of that, thanks.
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