Re: why does autoconf check for all these extra compilers?

[Ed Hartnett]

Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:

> As you said, you are cross compiling.  It is usual that `cc' or `gcc'
> is a native compiler, and ${host}-cc is the cross compiler.  That is
> why configure first searches for "i686-pc-mingw32-" versions of the
> tools, and only when they are not found, it falls back to standard
> names (supposing that you set the PATH so that the cross tools are
> found first).
>
> For more details specific to your platform, see Keith's answer, I do
> not have experience with Woe32.
>

Indeed, woe to programmers who must build on windows!

However, I have since been told that I should not be cross-compiling
anyway, I should just be building under mingw. Which I now do.

Thanks for all the help!!

Ed
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