Newbie instructions for building gcj for Windows

Wed Jun 26 17:41:00 GMT 2002

Adam Megacz wrote:
>"Andy Larder" <andylarder@hotmail.com> writes:
>>>>I'm a complete newcomer to gcj (and gcc), and have been trying to build gcj 
>>for Windows for the past week with no success (tried Cygwin + snapshots, 
>>last release etc).
>>>>>>You can't build GCJ on Cygwin. You have to cross-compile from another
>platform. I use Linux.
>
It should be more-or-less possible to build GCJ in cygwin now. At least, 
the filesystem case-insensitivity issue which prevented it from working 
previously has been fixed. I don't know if a cygwin-to-mingw cross is 
possible, however.
regards
Bryce.