[Box Backup] Cross-compilation with i586-mingw32msvc under Ubuntu Hard

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Achim,

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Achim wrote:

>>> I started to look into cross-compiling in the first place because it 
>>> was impossible for me to set up a sane build environment under Windows 
>>> XP.
>>
>> Why? I did it with cygwin. That's how I've always build Box Backup for 
>> Windows distributions, except for my own experimentation with 
>> cross-compiling.
>
> I remember to have read in one of your replies that you are now building 
> "native", and not cygwin anymore, also from the 0.10 release notes:

I do compile native from cygwin, i.e. cross-compiling from cygwin using 
gcc's -mno-cygwin, following the instructions in 
docs/api-docs/backup/win32_build_on_cygwin_using_mingw.txt, which are 
consequently much better tested than the cross-compiler instructions.

Cheers, Chris.
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