Re: bignum branch

[Andy Moreton]

On Sat 04 Aug 2018, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andy Moreton <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 20:54:34 +0100
>> 
>> If I apply the following from master to the bignum branch then a 32bit
>> MinGW build succeeds:
>> 
>> 024d20f81e ("Fix compilation with mingw.org's MinGW 5.x headers")
>> bd52f37cae ("Fix last change: only MinGW runtime 5.0.2 and later needs
>> that.")
>
> That's a surprise: I thought MinGW64 uses its own headers for 32-bit
> builds, whereas the above commits fix problems specific to mingw.org's
> headers.  At the time, I looked at the MinGW64 headers, and my
> conclusion was that this particular problem doesn't exist there.

We are miscommunicating.

The MSYS2 mingw64 builds (i686 and x86_64) all work correctly.
The problem is with the MinGW (mingw.org, i686 only) builds.

This would all be a lot less confusing if the two unreleated projects
had chosen more distinctive names.

    AndyM