On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 05:58:56PM +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > James Vega wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 03:30:32PM +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > > > >>James Vega wrote: > >> > >>>On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 11:10:21PM -0700, Hari Krishna Dara wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Isn't there a cross-compiler for producing cygwin executables from > >>>>Linux? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>There is a cross-compiler for producing Windows native executables. > >>>It's mingw and that was what I used to produce binaries of the vim7 > >>>pre-release before I found Tony's site. I'm not sure if it can be used > >>>to create cygwin executables. > >>> > >>>James > >>> > >>> > >>MinGW runs on Windows with Unix-like tools, doesn't it? > >> > > > >Yes, that's one use of MinGW, but there is also a linux->win32 > >cross-compiler. Your distribution may have packages. The MinGW wiki > >also has a HOWTO[0] for building the cross-compiler from their tools. > > > >James > >[0] > >http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/build%20a%20Win32%20x-compiler%20for%20Linux > > > My distribution has lots of packages; but searching in yast2 among all > (installed and uninstalled) packages for "Name/Summary/Description > Contains mingw (case-insensitive)" gives: Null result. Similarly, rpm > -qa |grep mingw (which IIUC searches only the names of installed > packages) also gives nothing. > > I see that wiki but I'm not anymore enough of a guru to be certain that > it will not clobber my installation of gcc for Linux. If it seems simple > to you, why don't you do it yourself?
I was more pointing this out for informational purposes instead of trying to push you to continue producing win32 versions of Vim. :) James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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