From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygwin64 install g++ v 4.6.4
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 19:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5388C283.30209@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5386F6C3.3000600@tiscali.co.uk>
On 2014-05-29 03:58, David Stacey wrote:
> On 29/05/14 05:19, Philapol wrote:
>> I would like to install g++ v 4.6.4 under cygwin64 but only v 4.8.2 is
>> available. What is the procedure to install this older version?
>
> 64-bit Cygwin is relatively new, and the earliest version of gcc that
> was built for 64-bit was gcc-4.8.0 (IIRC). If you need an older version
> then you would have to build it yourself from source.
Not likely; the requisite Win64 SEH support was only introduced in 4.8,
so building an earlier version simply isn't going to work.
> But as others have pointed out, your time would be better spent maintaining
> the code so that it compiles with a more modern compiler.
+1. Unless you can *prove* that there is a bug in GCC (which does
occasionally happen, granted), then this is usually the answer to this
sort of question.
Yaakov
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-30 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-29 8:29 Philapol
2014-05-29 10:52 ` Csaba Raduly
2014-05-29 15:40 ` David Stacey
2014-05-30 19:56 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X) [this message]
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