Hi Matthias, On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 09:13:58PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 10.11.2010 08:32, Stephen Kitt wrote: > >Package: wnpp > >Severity: wishlist > >Owner: Stephen Kitt<st...@sk2.org> > > > > > >* Package name : gcc-mingw-w64 > > we already have a mingw32 toolchain. Is it possible to build a mingw > biarch toolchain instead of a new package?
MinGW32 and MinGW-w64 are actually two different toolchains, not simply bi-arch variants of the same toolchain; they have different triplets. (In fact given the way ldscripts are shipped they would probably have to conflict with each other.) MinGW-w64 provides both 32-bit and 64-bit toolchains, and builds some 32-bit software (such as Wine Gecko) which the current mingw32 toolchain can't - that is in fact why Ove Kaaven was interested in Robert Millan's gcc-mingw32 package and associated packages which were actually based on MinGW-w64 rather than MinGW32, and why I started work on packaging the whole toolchain. My aim with the mingw-w64 toolchain is two-fold: * provide a proper MinGW-w64 toolchain, handling the varied requirements of the potential users in Debian, notably wine-gecko and potentially wine-mono; * avoid the confusion which exists regarding mingw32 and gcc-mingw32. I'm currently discussing the situation with Ron, the maintainer of the mingw32 toolchain. Our intention is ideally to establish whether one of the two toolchains can handle the various requirements, in which case only that one would be kept. Note that for now MinGW (the new name for MinGW32) doesn't support 64-bit targets; that support is supposed to be forthcoming. A bigger problem is that recent releases of MinGW only support Windows-hosted compilers, as I understand things at least. > the toolchain currently builds for arch `any'. Is this really > necessary? Maybe it's fine to to prove that this is buildable on > arm or mips, but is it really used? Probably not, i386 and amd64 would be perfectly sufficient. Thanks for your interest, Stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101114215954.gk9...@sk2.org
