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Re: Documentation on W32
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Documentation on W32 |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Sep 2012 07:41:13 +0200 |
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:52:21 -0700
> From: "B. Scott Michel" <address@hidden>
This isn't the right list to discuss these things.
> On 9/15/2012 3:43 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> mingw32 is _not_ broken, far from that. It is just somewhat slow in
> >> catching up with the latest MS headers and functions, that's all.
>
> Really slow. Painfully so.
You are welcome to help.
> >> Mingw32 is currently the _only_ package that allows building software
> >> packages that use autoconf on Windows platforms, without extensive
> >> tinkering with the infrastructure (such as the shell used to run the
> >> scripts and Makefiles) or recompiling lots of basic libraries that are
> >> already available in precompiled form from the MinGW site. That site
> >> provides everything that is needed:
>
> That's not completely true. You can install MSys independently from
> Mingw32, as the Mingw64 web pages suggest.
Yes, you can, but you need more tinkering to get them work together.
And MSYS isn't a 64-bit environment.
> You'd run into a problem, however, if you didn't specify CC and CXX for
> configure and make because gcc and g++ would be missing.
>
> That's how my current development environment is configured --
> "CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -m32" for 32-bit compiles.
That's a bug in Mingw64, IMO.
- Re: Documentation on W32, (continued)
- Re: Documentation on W32, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/09/15
- Re: Documentation on W32, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2012/09/15
- Re: Documentation on W32, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/09/15
- Re: Documentation on W32, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2012/09/15
- Re: Documentation on W32, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/09/15
- Re: Documentation on W32, LRN, 2012/09/26
- Re: Documentation on W32, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2012/09/27
- Re: Documentation on W32, LRN, 2012/09/27
- Re: Documentation on W32, LRN, 2012/09/27
- Re: Documentation on W32, B. Scott Michel, 2012/09/26
- Re: Documentation on W32,
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- Re: Documentation on W32, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/09/15