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

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy pclouds at gmail.com
Sun Apr 18 10:29:06 UTC 2010


On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. I'll check it out.
-- 
Duy


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