On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 05:38:23PM -0800, Nathaniel Hayden wrote:
> According to the content itself ("As of 2011 ...") the section was last
> updated in 2011, and commit logs seem to confirm this.
>
> I'm a developer in a bioinformatics group that uses the R statistical
> analysis language, also part of the GNU Project. I came across Gnulib while
> trying to port an important bioinformatics library (HTSlib) to Windows on
> the way to making it available in R. I've already had success with making
> the library work with mingw32. Thank you for your excellent work!
>
> But the R language toolchain for Windows is based on MinGW-w64. Currently
> the Target Platforms section reads
> - mingw in 64-bit mode is not tested and low priority so far.
>
> The logs contain many commits around MinGW-w64. Can you comment on support
> for MinGW-w64--and is it now considered a reasonable target, and hence the
> Target Platforms section can be updated? I would like to sell adoption of
> Gnulib to the maintainers of HTSlib, but the ultimate goal is to make it
> work with R's toolchain.
My understanding, based on recalling previous discussions on this list,
is that mingw64 (despite its name) supports Windows in both 32-bit and
64-bit modes, and that Gnulib supports Windows only in 32-bit mode.
