According to the content itself ("As of 2011 ...") the section was last
updated in 2011, and commit logs seem to confirm this.
I'm a developer in a bioinformatics group that uses the R statistical
analysis language, also part of the GNU Project. I came across Gnulib
while trying to port an important bioinformatics library (HTSlib) to
Windows on the way to making it available in R. I've already had success
with making the library work with mingw32. Thank you for your excellent
work!
But the R language toolchain for Windows is based on MinGW-w64.
Currently the Target Platforms section reads
- mingw in 64-bit mode is not tested and low priority so far.
The logs contain many commits around MinGW-w64. Can you comment on
support for MinGW-w64--and is it now considered a reasonable target, and
hence the Target Platforms section can be updated? I would like to sell
adoption of Gnulib to the maintainers of HTSlib, but the ultimate goal
is to make it work with R's toolchain.
Thanks,
Nate Hayden
P.S In the hope that it's helpful, my imported modules are:
alloca arpa_inet fcntl fdatasync inttypes netdb recv send stat-size
stddef stdint stdlib string sys_select sys_socket sys_stat sys_time unistd
With all dependencies included:
absolute-header alloca alloca-opt arpa_inet close dup2 errno extensions
extern-inline fcntl fcntl-h fd-hook fdatasync fileblocks fsync
getdtablesize gettimeofday include_next inttypes inttypes-incomplete
msvc-inval msvc-nothrow multiarch netdb recv send signal-h
snippet/_Noreturn snippet/arg-nonnull snippet/c++defs
snippet/warn-on-use socketlib socklen ssize_t stat-size stdalign stddef
stdint stdlib string sys_select sys_socket sys_stat sys_time sys_types
sys_uio time unistd
