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From: Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: mingw32-gcc and posix paths
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+sc5m=3=yDcWhRoqpcLU-fLEFKy9tPKubbAQkNgs9pmQTQ1ZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k1ne6p$6im$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Sven Köhler wrote:
> Am 29.08.2012 18:08, schrieb thoni56:
>> "i686-w64-mingw32-gcc" (which it is in my cygwin) works perfectly. Thanks!
>
> That is actually not MinGW (formely known as mingw32),

It is no such thing.  It is known as MinGW.org.

> but MinGW-w64 (a
> new project, independent from the "old" MinGW32 project).
> That's why JonY pointed you at i686-pc-mingw32-gcc, which is the old
> MinGW (but not MinGW-w64) compiler.
>
> http://www.mingw.org/
> http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
>
> If you have a choice, I'd recommend MinGW-w64 since the project is very
> alive and JonY provides regular updates of the cygwin packages.

We are as much alive as this adjunct mingw-w64 project is.

Sorry list, I could not let this slide by unchallenged.

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-08-30 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-29  7:40 thoni56
2012-08-29  7:43 ` thoni56
2012-08-29 15:04   ` JonY
2012-08-29 18:02     ` thoni56
2012-08-30 16:45       ` Sven Köhler
2012-08-30 19:22         ` Earnie Boyd [this message]

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