> I, for one, am personally sorry for bringing up the whole subject. Does
Don't be - it was good to get things out in the open. > someone have a "tutorial" or a link to instructions to build what you > propose. I have no problem admitting that I am almost totally ignorant > of the step-by-step process necessary to build or re-build the tool as > you suggest. > Building a cross-gcc is not too difficult using cygwin - you follow the same step-by-step instructions as for building it on *nix (with the exception that you don't need to be "root" for the install step). First, you must install the basic cygwin setup. This can be quite a large download - if you don't have a fast link, cygwin turns up occasionally on computer magazine CDs (I saw it recently on a Linux Format CD). You need bash, gcc, cvs, and the basic utilities. The follow the instructions at http://mspgcc.sourceforge.net/build.html . There is, as far as I know, a mistake in these instructions - they recommend putting "$prefix/bin" into your PATH before building gdb - in fact, you must put it into your path before building gcc or the library. If none of the above makes much sense to you, then I'm afraid you'll have to wait for others to post builds for you to try (testing other peoples builds and reporting back is as helpful as building yourself), or until someone makes a more complete step-by-step guide.
