Re: Removed: mingw.org toolchain

Re: Removed: mingw.org toolchain

[Lee]

On 3/17/16, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> The old mingw.org (i686-pc-mingw32) toolchain has been removed from the
> Cygwin distribution.  It was unmaintained (both upstream and downstream)
> and limited to 32-bit support.
>
> Users who wish to cross-compile for native Windows should use the
> mingw64-* ({i686,x86_64}-w64-mingw32) toolchains instead.

I'd like to cross-compile to native Windows 32 bit executables.  So
I'd install mingw64-i686-gcc-core even tho it says "GCC for Win64
toolchain" - correct?

And then ./configure  --host=i686-w64-mingw32
or use some other host value?


nit-picky, but should the FAQ be updated to remove "mingw-gcc"?

6.13 How do I compile a Win32 executable that doesn't use Cygwin?
The compilers provided by the mingw-gcc, mingw64-i686-gcc, and
mingw64-x86_64-gcc packages link against standard Microsoft DLLs
instead of Cygwin.

Thanks,
Lee

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Re: Removed: mingw.org toolchain

[JonY]

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On 3/22/2016 03:12, Lee wrote:
> On 3/17/16, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> The old mingw.org (i686-pc-mingw32) toolchain has been removed from the
>> Cygwin distribution.  It was unmaintained (both upstream and downstream)
>> and limited to 32-bit support.
>>
>> Users who wish to cross-compile for native Windows should use the
>> mingw64-* ({i686,x86_64}-w64-mingw32) toolchains instead.
> 
> I'd like to cross-compile to native Windows 32 bit executables.  So
> I'd install mingw64-i686-gcc-core even tho it says "GCC for Win64
> toolchain" - correct?
> 

Yes, this is correct (I should fix this).

> And then ./configure  --host=i686-w64-mingw32
> or use some other host value?
> 

This is correct.




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Re: Removed: mingw.org toolchain

[Lee]

Thank you
Lee

On 3/21/16, JonY  wrote:
> On 3/22/2016 03:12, Lee wrote:
>> On 3/17/16, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>>> The old mingw.org (i686-pc-mingw32) toolchain has been removed from the
>>> Cygwin distribution.  It was unmaintained (both upstream and downstream)
>>> and limited to 32-bit support.
>>>
>>> Users who wish to cross-compile for native Windows should use the
>>> mingw64-* ({i686,x86_64}-w64-mingw32) toolchains instead.
>>
>> I'd like to cross-compile to native Windows 32 bit executables.  So
>> I'd install mingw64-i686-gcc-core even tho it says "GCC for Win64
>> toolchain" - correct?
>>
>
> Yes, this is correct (I should fix this).
>
>> And then ./configure  --host=i686-w64-mingw32
>> or use some other host value?
>>
>
> This is correct.
>

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Re: Removed: mingw.org toolchain

[Corinna Vinschen]

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On Mar 21 15:12, Lee wrote:
> nit-picky, but should the FAQ be updated to remove "mingw-gcc"?

Done.


Thanks,
Corinna

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