From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32453 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2009 16:34:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 32437 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Feb 2009 16:34:14 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MISSING_HEADERS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp193.sat.emailsrvr.com (HELO smtp193.sat.emailsrvr.com) (66.216.121.193) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:34:06 +0000 Received: from relay19.relay.sat.mlsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay19.relay.sat.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 8126F1C1746 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:34:04 -0500 (EST) Received: by relay19.relay.sat.mlsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: jdgressett-AT-amli-denton.com) with ESMTPSA id 4954B1C1750 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:34:04 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4992FDCC.7080708@amli-denton.com> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:34:00 -0000 From: David Gressett User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: g++ versions References: <4efd67eb0902110513j323585d1s8a6e1899647f00ca@mail.gmail.com> <4992E13C.3010903@sbcglobal.net> <4efd67eb0902110730k1b1040a6g4f679c11215e0105@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4efd67eb0902110730k1b1040a6g4f679c11215e0105@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2009-02/txt/msg00077.txt.bz2 Robert Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Tim Prince wrote: > >> Turning to the cygwin install menu and mailing list archives would help to >> answer the question. As I recall, yesterday they promised a gcc-4.4 build >> including OpenMP for the first time, to come out on the cygwin install >> menu within a week. It remains to be seen how buggy it may be. >> >> There are at least 3 popular sources for mingw builds; one which includes >> support libraries and Fortran, and soon will include C++, is the gfortran >> wiki. >> >> I don't understand your last question. Have you tried to build gcc on >> Windows yourself, or read any posted comments on it? I'm about to go to >> my office and check the success of my gcc-testsuite run, which I will post >> if at all meaningful. >> Yes, many of the people who support gcc for Windows do it by cross builds. >> Are you objecting to that? After all, Windows is intentionally designed >> to require work-arounds not common to any other OS. >> I should have taken the hint from Tbird and not dredged this out of the >> spam folder. >> >> > > Hi Tim > > "Dredged out of the spam folder", - gosh a promotion ;) > > I'm unclear what you mean by the Cygwin install menu - is that the setup > program? > > I haven't tried to build gcc on Windows, largely because it is unclear to > me exactly which version it would be useful to try to build, hence asking > the original question. > > My aim is simply to arrive at fairly recent (ie version 4) g++ compiler for > Windows, either a binary download or one I build myself, but the build > reports seem to suggest that all the v4 windows build attempts have many > failures. > > If I've got this wrong please let me know - I'd be delighted to be wrong! > > Thanks, Rob > You should also read the MinGW mailing list; there has been much recent discussion about the slow progress of gcc in MinGW and the reasons for that slow pace.. To make a long story short, Windows is a difficult system on which to get gcc working properly. It wasn't intentionally designed to be difficult, but unintentional design is quite adequate for producing major difficulties. :) Exception handling is a major problem which is still not completely solved in the currently-available MinGW V4