John Tytgat wrote on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 9:23 PM:
In message <537bab40.6080...@sky.com>
Lee Noar <leen...@sky.com> wrote:
> On 20/05/14 11:20, Theo Markettos wrote:
> > A few questions regarding the current situation of GCCSDK and the
> > autobuilder packages, because I haven't been keeping up to date:
> >
> > 1. What's the recommended host distro for building GCC and autobuilder
> > packages? Debian, Ubuntu? What version?
>
> I think anything debian based, I currently use Linux Mint 15, which is
> derived from Ubuntu Raring, without any trouble.
I'm using Mint 16. Anything debian based is a safe choice. I believe
we had reported issues for Cygwin and I'm not sure if that's still used
to build gccsdk by someone. Knowing that Cygwin is pretty slow, I doubt
this is a viable option.
I use Cygwin still as it means I can build and test programs on a Windows
machine without having to start up an additional virtual machine.
Last week tried to build the gcc4.7 cross compiler on it and it got far
enough that it had built the main compilers, but the tools failed on
the build for asasm. I'd love it to just work out of the box, but appreciate
it's not a supported platform so don't bother reporting errors in it.
It also fails to build many of the packages in the autobuilder, but I do
have a Debian virtual machine which I can use to build them and
then copy the result to Windows.
[snip]
Regards,
Alan
P.S. Sorry John - I sent this just to you by accident first time.
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