Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:38 AM >On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:28:56PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >>I don't much like it, but that's reality. (...why did Cygnus fund the >>early development, in the first place? To have a windows-hosted build >>environment for xxx-target compilers: in this case, xxx = native-win32) > >Cygnus funded the work to provide windows *hosted* cross compilers for >other architectures. Targetting *native* targeted win32 did not come >until a couple into the life of the project.
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