On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 7/16/2013 9:10 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> Are the mingw cross compilers still necessary, now that we have >> modern mingw-w64 toolchains? On Fedora they aren't shipped since >> F17, which already came with mingw-w64 toolchains either. > > > No, in the sense that you could use the mingw-w64 i686 toolchain to generate > 32bit "native" windows apps instead. > > Yes, because the two toolchains are not mutually compatible (different ABI, > different exception model, different threading library, different > w32api/runtime library). If you are using a cygwin $host to develop, > specifically, mingw.org-distribution compatible apps/libs...then you need > the mingw.org cross compiler. > > I don't know how many people that represents -- it might just be me and > Earnie -- but I'm not ready to declare mingw(.org)-gcc dead just yet. I at
I'm not actually using mingw-gcc on Cygwin and have no opinion for the offering. > least want to update our current offering to something more current than > 4.5.x, AND it's necessary on i686 because recent gmp/mpfr/mpc library > updates have broken mingw-gcc. If, after this update, we want to declare > EOL on mingw(.org)-gcc, we could discuss that on cygwin-apps. Can you specify what the issues are for gmp/mpfr/mpc? I ask because I'm attempting to build 2.8.1. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
