Hi

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 2:44 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 05:20:31PM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > Projects releasing for Windows should probably natively build and test
> their
> > releases with Msys2, and they can do so for msvcrt targets.
>
> This isn't a very useful suggestion.  We build using mingw precisely
> to avoid touching Windows at all.
>

Even freedesktop offers Windows CI instances where you can build natively.

I have honest doubts about projects doing releases for Windows without ever
running it.


> I'm a little confused about the thread though.  If we use mingw32-*
> after this change, does it still use msvcrt?
>

There is no change on the existing mingw32 and mingw64 targets. Did you
read the proposal? :)


>
> Rich.
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