[Ccrtp-devel] Re: Patches to compile CC++ 2 for Win32 with GCC using Mingw32

[Federico Montesino Pouzols]

> I think we should probably have an updated ccrtp release out soon...
>

   It is coming... the new code is now mostly complete, and now I am
filling small gasps and fixing bugs. However, although small, I am
still finding many bugs.

> Yes, a lot of people have been reworking libtool for cygwin and perhaps
> ignoring mingw32 in the process...I happen to prefer mingw32 (cross
> compiled)  rather than the nativily hosted cygwin32 because I can build
> those target  binaries on a free system. That being said, I think it is
> also useful and  helpful to have standard free software applications and
> open protocol  implementations available on all platforms.  In the end
> this will be  important for things like a gnu softphone project.
>

   I fully agree with you :)

> Out of curiosity, and somewhat related, can the debian hosted mingw32
> binutils  link things in omf format (like "xxx.lib") files as well as
> the coff/elf  objects it already supports?  And can one generate omf
> ".lib" files out of  .a's, such as from the libccgnu2.a dll stub?
>

   As far as I know, it cannot.