Hello sadistic friends.

I have given up.

I am leaving the instructions below but this is plan too difficult and I am moving on to Cygwin.  This is will remain here for simply…  I don’t know…  warnings to others that hair loss is not a good trade-off for getting this to work under MinGW.

We are going to try to build a compiler on Winderz now.  This is a follow up to installing crosstool-ng on MinGW on Winderz.  You should have MinGW already installed.

1. Open up your msys bash shell the batch file – C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat as administrator.  We will assume that you installed MinGW on C:\MinGW.  We will be working from the instructions here.  I installed mine at /home/maks/crosstool.  Always, I repeat, always run the terminal as administrator or some of the decompression of packages will not occur due to permission errors.
2. Export your tool location by typing

   export PATH="${PATH}:/home/maks/crosstool/bin"

   Substitute your own path because I don’t think your name is Maks.  Now you should be able to run ct-ng now.  In fact, if you create a .profile file in your home directory that includes this line, you will never need to type it again.

3. Make a directory for your cross compiler.  I called mine linux64 and I placed it in my home directory.  Remember your name is not Maks.  I decided that I am going to build an x86_64_unknown-linux-gnu because I want it to run on an Ubuntu built server 13.10. So in the linux64, type

   ct-ng x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

   You can read about using ct-ng from the link above.  Then through

   ct-ng menuconfig

   I moved to all the latest versions of everything, eglibc, the 3.10 kernel, binutils, etc.  Also, make sure that your compiler is not linking statically.  This doesn’t work on Windows (and I haven’t tracked down why).

4. Ok, now run

   ct-ng build

   You will get errors.  We will work through them.

5. The first error will be that the filesystem is not case sensitive.  We will remedy this by adding the key to the registry.

   HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\kernel\obcaseinsensitive

   Set this value to zero.

6. The second will be that the OS  MINGW32_NT-6.2 is not supported.  We will add that.  Edit ~/crosstool/lib/ct-ng.1.19.0/scripts/functions and look for a function called CT_DoForceRmdir.  Find the case statement and add MINGW32* to the line.  It should look like this.

   Linux|CYGIN*|MINGW32*)

7. You may need to create a source directory where all of the tarballs are cached.  Simply

   mkdir ~/src

8. The next error relates to downloading the tarballs and the use of certificates.  I determined this by looking at build.log.  The utility wget is attempting to validate certificates.  For now, we will simply remote the check.   Edit ~/crosstool/lib/ct-ng.1.19.0/scripts/functions and look for CT_DoGetFile.  On the line that starts with “if CT_DoExecLog ALL wget”, add –no-check-certificate to the command line.  Be mindful for split lines in script using the \.
9. Oh geez, there is way too much.  Headers aren’t there… ugh.  Too much.  I have given up.  I am going to now try my hand at Cygwin.