Re: Help cross compiling for MingW32 standalone executables.

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:52:10PM -0400, Bill C. Riemers wrote:
>>I was wondering if you knew something I didn't.  :-) I didn't remember
>>any solution to this problem but with my aging brain that is
>>unsurprising.
>>
>>IIRC, the real problem here was in binutils.  There was no way to get
>>ld to stop searching /usr/lib.
>
>I do not believe this is the real problem.  If it was, then the
>configure script would also find libjpeg.a from /usr/lib ....  The only
>library it finds that it shouldn't is libm.a.

I maintain binutils.  I know what the problem is.  If 'gcc -mno-cygwin'
could be made to never search /usr/lib that would solve many -mno-cygwin
problems.  I expended considerable effort trying to ensure that gcc does
not search /usr/include/mingw for header files and does not include
/usr/lib on the command file when calling ld or collect2.  I never got
around to doing the same thing for ld, though.  ld knows about /usr/lib
"implicitly".

>While I believe creating an empty libm.a would solve this particular
>problem, doing that inside the an autoconf macro is definitely the wrong
>place for that solution.

I was not suggesting doing this in an autoconf macro.  Do it once and
forget about it.

>Especially, since this might break the build if later the bug is fixed
>in mingw, or a libm.a is added as part of mingw.  If that type of hack
>is neccissary it should be done in the gcc-mingw postinstall script.

If libm.a is added to the mingw-runtime release it will overwrite your
empty file.  There isn't any mingw bug here.  mingw is allowed to not
have a libm.a file.  gcc/ld just shouldn't be finding cygwin's libm.a.

The suggestion was to get you up and running.  It was intended to be a
quick fix.  Since it would have taken ten seconds to type and involved
no code changes at all, I thought it was a clear win.  Obviously you
think differently, so I'll bow out of this discussion now since I
have nothing further to add.

cgf

>For a configure script it looks like I can change AC_CHECK_LIB(m,sqrt) to:
>
>AC_CHECK_LIB(msvcrt,sqrt,AC_CHECK_LIB(msvcp60,mbrlen),AC_CHECK_LIB(m,sqrt))
>I can both avoid the problem of bogus libm.a detection, and avoid using
>msvcp60 under cygwin builds.
>
>The only problem remaining, is I'm not certain if I should use msvcrt,
>msvcrt20 or msvcrt40, since I do not know what the difference is between
>these libraries.

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