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Re: Removed: mingw.org toolchain


On 3/22/2016 03:12, Lee wrote:
> On 3/17/16, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> The old mingw.org (i686-pc-mingw32) toolchain has been removed from the
>> Cygwin distribution.  It was unmaintained (both upstream and downstream)
>> and limited to 32-bit support.
>>
>> Users who wish to cross-compile for native Windows should use the
>> mingw64-* ({i686,x86_64}-w64-mingw32) toolchains instead.
> 
> I'd like to cross-compile to native Windows 32 bit executables.  So
> I'd install mingw64-i686-gcc-core even tho it says "GCC for Win64
> toolchain" - correct?
> 

Yes, this is correct (I should fix this).

> And then ./configure  --host=i686-w64-mingw32
> or use some other host value?
> 

This is correct.



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