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Re: [ITP] mingw64-x86_64-winpthreads 3.0b_svn5726-1
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 13:08:33 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ITP] mingw64-x86_64-winpthreads 3.0b_svn5726-1
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On Apr 8 18:14, JonY wrote:
> On 4/8/2013 15:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Apr 7 17:47, JonY wrote:
> >> winpthreads is a pthreads implementation from mingw-w64. The ABI is
> >> incompatible with pthreads-win32. One of the major differences is that
> >> winpthreads uses scalar handles, so it is a bit more compatible to other
> >> packages that assume int type handles.
> >>
> >> I have successfully built the 64bit cross compiler for cygwin64. There
> >> are no changes to the -1 release other than some .cygport modifications.
> >>
> >> For now, I intend to push it to 64bit Cygwin only, once gcc 4.7 for the
> >> 32bit cygwin hits release, I will push it there too.
> >>
> >> There are some files in the package that replaces some of the
> >> mingw-w64-headers CRT headers, this is done on purpose. will
> >> cygcheck/setup have any issues?
> >>
> >> Since it is not in any major distros, I guess it will have to go through
> >> a vote.
> >
> > Isn't that rather just a necessary library extensions to the cross
> > toolchain? I'm not so sure we really need a vote here. Feel free
> > to upload.
> >
> > Btw., would you mind to release new 32 bit w32api headers and runtime?
> > The latest changes to include the intrinsics in kernel32.a were pretty
> > important fixes for the Cygwin toolchain I think.
> >
>
> OK, I'll only be free to do it this weekend though.
Sure, no worries.
Thanks,
Corinna
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