On 8/6/2016 14:58, Tony Kelman wrote:
> Have you backported the patch for GCC bug 66655 here? I was expecting
> this to miscompile LLVM and cause test failures when building the Julia
> language, as I've seen for all other GCC 5.x versions on mingw targets.
> The fix was https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc/trunk/gcc/config/i386/winnt.c?r1=232828&r2=232827&pathrev=232828
> which is only on gcc 6, it has not been applied to the gcc-5 branch
> https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc/branches/gcc-5-branch/gcc/config/i386/winnt.c?view=log
> 

Nope, just vanilla 5.4.0.

> I was expecting the following to fail, but surprisingly it seems okay.
> (It's large and would take an hour or more for you to reproduce this,
> probably no need since it's working so far):
> 
> # check build prereqs
> curl --version
> patch --version
> python --version
> g++ --version
> m4 --version
> cmake --version
> 7z -h
> x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc --version
> x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ --version
> x86_64-w64-mingw32-gfortran --version
> # end of build prereq checks
> git clone https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia -b release-0.5
> cd julia
> mkdir -p usr/bin # I'll need to fix Julia's build system for libvtv
> cp /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libvtv-0.dll usr/bin
> make -j8 test # defaults to cross-compile when build env is cygwin
> 

Does Julia depend on C++11 features? I'm not familiar with it. How big
is it compared to say, QT?