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mingw.org cross compiler [Was: problem with cvs binary?]
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:39:42 -0400
- Subject: mingw.org cross compiler [Was: problem with cvs binary?]
- References: <ks2e8i$idp$1 at ger dot gmane dot org> <51E54596 dot 5040400 at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm> <20130716131044 dot GJ2712 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
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 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.
--
Chuck
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