[syslinux] where to get the mingw tools

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ayvaz, James wrote:
> Hi all,
>         On the wiki page [http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Comboot_API], it mentions downloading the mingw tools from [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/mingw], where the README states that the packages are obsolete and should be downloaded from [http://mirzam.it.vu.nl/mingw]  The link to http://mirzam.it.vu.nl/mingw appears to be broken.
> 
> Can someone direct me to the mingw packages used by the official Syslinux build?  Thanks for the help.
> 

Ouch.

I just saw this:

http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2008-May/066097.html

This is a major loss.  Since we have been talking about help, if someone
would be willing to maintain MinGW RPMs, and preferrably register as a
Fedora contributor and push them into the Fedora repositories, it would
be an enormous help not just to me but to anyone who have reasons to
cross-compile Windows binaries on Linux.

This can probably be used as a basis, in addition to the existing SRPMS:

	http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/

Either which way, I have now uploaded the latest version of the mirzam
RPMs that *I* have to:

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/mingw/

There is also another set of Mingw binaries under:

	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=217165

They look more up to date, but the author admits to not being so "clean"
in the packaging (one big blob under /opt/mingw).

	-hpa