[PATCH 35/39] Makefile: support building on Windows using MinGW compiler

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sun Apr 18 06:30:59 UTC 2010


On Friday 16 April 2010 01:50:24 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Dan Fandrich <dan at coneharvesters.com> 
wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:02:20PM +0200, Nguy�n Thái Ng�c Duy wrote:
> >> +ifeq ($(CONFIG_TARGET_WIN32),y)
> >
> > Many parts of this patch series depend on CONFIG_TARGET_WIN32. But it
> > seems many instances are really specific to MingW32 rather than
> > generically Win32. If someone later does a Cygwin port, or a MSVC port, I
> > imagine much of what's conditionally compiled with CONFIG_TARGET_WIN32
> > won't be relevant. Does it make sense to change this variable to
> > CONFIG_TARGET_MINGW32 instead?
>
> As far as I know, there are three big compilers on Windows: MSVC,
> MinGW and Cygwin.

Tinycc has effectively turned into a windows-only compiler under the current 
maintainer.

Rob
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