Re: [Mingw-w64-public] oracle vs google on APIs, affects OSS and android, in court

2012-05-12 Thread Kai Tietz
Hi, this case is indeed interesting, but as far as I understood was last decision in this case that Google seems to have copied some Oracle's (well Sun's) files for testing-purposes. There are enough more detailed descriptions to be found in the internet. Nevertheless the subject you state here

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-12 Thread JonY
On 5/13/2012 00:21, MARTIN Pierre wrote: > Dear list readers, > >>> I'm just trying to sensitize you for the consequences of your >>> compat-breaking changes, which are the sole reason for my >>> "derecommendation". >> Consider your point made, but understand this: TDM-GCC certainly has >> some

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-12 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Dear list readers, >> I'm just trying to sensitize you for the consequences of your >> compat-breaking changes, which are the sole reason for my >> "derecommendation". > Consider your point made, but understand this: TDM-GCC certainly has > some critical differences from other GCC distributions

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-12 Thread John E. / TDM
On 5/12/2012 3:18 AM, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > I'm just trying to sensitize you for the consequences of your > compat-breaking changes, which are the sole reason for my > "derecommendation". Consider your point made, but understand this: TDM-GCC certainly has some critical differences from othe

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] gcc build stage 2 error

2012-05-12 Thread JonY
On 5/12/2012 22:11, Whitequill Riclo wrote: >> Is there a something on the directory tree I need so the script can run >> correctly? You really need to fix your quoting or your mail client. No, just make -f should do. Use the host-tools-check target to check your required host tools. eg.: make

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Using gendef and dlltool… Reopening the pandora.

2012-05-12 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Just for clarification: In the def file, you will see a few C-compliant methods. These are the one i call from my main binary, along with DeviceConfig and Config constructors and destructors. The only other function called from the main binary is SC::StaticInitializer, it's a static declaring it

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Using gendef and dlltool… Reopening the pandora.

2012-05-12 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Hmm, I doubt that the code for delay-load support makes a differenceof calling-convention of exports.  Only important thing is that thosefunction are declared with proper calling-convention prototype.That's exactly what JonY told me when we attacked this problem (He was of a great help regarding th

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Using gendef and dlltool… Reopening the pandora.

2012-05-12 Thread Kai Tietz
2012/5/12 MARTIN Pierre : > Dear list readers, > > i'm enjoying my free time to migrate all my projects on the MinGW-w64 > compiler toolchain. > i am using Ruben's build right now, and it is working exactly as expected > (All my project compile as well as the 3rd party project they need). > My go

[Mingw-w64-public] Using gendef and dlltool… Reopening the pandora.

2012-05-12 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Dear list readers, i'm enjoying my free time to migrate all my projects on the MinGW-w64 compiler toolchain. i am using Ruben's build right now, and it is working exactly as expected (All my project compile as well as the 3rd party project they need). My goal being to achieve the same thing i wa

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-12 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2012/5/12 John E. / TDM > On 5/11/2012 9:10 AM, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > > Yes, TDM's toolchain is a native build. but please don't use it, it's > > old (by now) and as you can see has installation problems > > :( > > With these two frankly unfounded generalizations, you may be scaring off > quit