From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18424 invoked by alias); 16 Jul 2013 16:25:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 18397 invoked by uid 89); 16 Jul 2013 16:25:17 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RDNS_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from Unknown (HELO mail-qc0-f171.google.com) (209.85.216.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:25:16 +0000 Received: by mail-qc0-f171.google.com with SMTP id n1so498277qcw.30 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:25:09 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.229.198.2 with SMTP id em2mr722537qcb.96.1373991909176; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:25:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.87.232 with HTTP; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:25:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51E5693E.9090207@cwilson.fastmail.fm> References: <51E54596.5040400@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20130716131044.GJ2712@calimero.vinschen.de> <51E5693E.9090207@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:05:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: mingw.org cross compiler [Was: problem with cvs binary?] From: Earnie Boyd To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SW-Source: 2013-07/txt/msg00329.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: > 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 I'm not actually using mingw-gcc on Cygwin and have no opinion for the offering. > 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. Can you specify what the issues are for gmp/mpfr/mpc? I ask because I'm attempting to build 2.8.1. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple