On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 08:58 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Unfortunately, it sounds like we've stepped into the middle of a dispute > between the mingw folks and the mingw64 folks. Maybe the best thing for > us to do would be to decide to use only one or the other but not both.
It does seem that there is a debate -- but I'm not part of it. My only involvement with either the last few days is fixing cygport for cross-compilers and cross-compiling. That being said, I see the technical arguments for allowing both toolchains (provided someone steps up and packages a mingw.org version). Mingw.org-based software is still widespread, and as JonY mentioned they are not fully compatible. OTOH mingw-w64, besided providing the only 64bit option, also has certain advantages which warrant a 32bit version as well. Here's my question, though: given the incompatibilities mentioned, would a cygwin1.dll built with i686-w64-cygwin (mingw-w64) toolchain be 100% compatible with current and past releases built with i686-pc-cygwin (mingw.org) toolchain? If not, then we need both. Yaakov
