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 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.
-- Chuck -- 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
