Ruben Van Boxem added the comment:
I can confirm the option has been removed. For those that don't want to believe
a random person's comment on a bugtracker, here's the commit:
http://repo.or.cz/w/official-gcc.git/commit/2637551aa9314c46cf4205d435ab5e8944e9ac8a
The changelog i
Ruben Van Boxem added the comment:
> Does anyone have more official documentation?
The commit I linked to has the full option removal at October 7 2010 (see the
fifth item in the changelog entry). Any GCC (major) version released after that
will have it completely removed.
Deprecat
Ruben Van Boxem added the comment:
Has anyone looked at this? I'm trying to build gdb with Python enabled with
mingw-w64 (Python 2.7.1 with manually created import libraries), but have to
manually define MS_WIN64 in the CFLAGS. The patch only does what's right (i.e.
define a
Ruben Van Boxem added the comment:
Checking for a compiler's file name is stupid. Native Windows gcc is just
"gcc.exe", Cygwin native GCC is also "gcc". Some have a lot of toolchains in
PATH at the same time. That's not the right wa
Ruben Van Boxem added the comment:
Paul,
Thank you for your serious take on the issue.
I'm Ruben, a long-time contributor and 3-ish year toolchain builder for
MinGW-w64. I originally helped patching Qt 4.5/4.6 so that it worked with
MinGW-w64 on 64-bit Windows.
I can help liaison be
Ruben Van Boxem added the comment:
Paul,
OK, I understand your point of view. As you say, there is no single "MinGW"
community, nor a guiding body that takes these decisions. If you're not willing
to choose one, all I can say is this: it will probably not matter which version
