Hi, OK, I'm obviously having a hard time getting a relocatable version of gcc building on mingw. I can successfully build gcc 4.1.1 and svn trunk on mingw, however, neither of the builds are relocatable and they only run from --prefix dir. Now, I want to clear things up, because I've received a lot of misinformation over the past fews days. That is, information that is completly contradictory. If I build gcc on mingw with only --prefix, and without --with-sysroot, - should it be relocatable? - should it run from a DESTDIR, instead of the prefix dir? Do I need to use --with-sysroot to get a relocatable version of gcc on mingw? If so, how does one use --with-sysroot? Do you still have to do --prefix=/mingw always, and then od --with-sysroot=/pathto/sysroot? I understand the sysroot dir must be created before the compile. Can I simply put binutils, w32api and mingw-runtime into it? If so, would this makes sense, mkdir sysroot cd sysroot tar -zxvf binutils.tar.gz tar -zxvf mingw-runtime.tar.gz tar -zxvf w32api.tar.gz I have received information that in the sysroot directory, you have to put a mingw directory, is this true? if so, what goes in there? ./configure --prefix=/mingw --with-sysroot=/pathto/sysroot make bootstrap make DESTDIR=/pathto/destdir install and then I can run from destdir? or from anywhere else I please? Sorry, all of this fuss is because I'd like to get a working, relocatable, gcc on mingw. If the community can help me out, I can make this release available for mingw. So please help. Thanks, Bob Rossi
