[Mingw-cross-env-list] MXE 2.23 Released

[Tony Theodore]

The MXE team is pleased to announce the new release 2.23 after a thorough 
testing phase[1].

MXE is a makefile based cross-compiling environment that provides a sane, 
repeatable way to build many open source libraries[2]. Designed to run on *nix 
like systems, it currently targets static libraries for Windows using the 
mingw.org and mingw-w64 runtimes.

Highlights of this release:

- over 70 new packages including major releases such as Qt5 and VTK6 (total 
package count now ~270)
- GCC updated to 4.8.1 and most packages updated to their latest versions
- added support for mingw-w64 based toolchains targeting 32 & 64-bit 
architectures

See the changelog for further details and update notes for Qt and FreeBSD users:
http://mxe.cc/#history

Download instructions:
http://mxe.cc/#download

Current users are *strongly* encouraged to start with a clean tree as the 
toolchain has been updated and requires a full rebuild:

    $ git pull && make clean && make

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the testing and development[3] of 
this release.

Regards,
Tony


[1] 
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/mingw-cross-env-list/2013-07/msg00021.html
[2] http://mxe.cc/#packages
[3] 
https://github.com/mxe/mxe/graphs/contributors?from=2012-04-12&to=2013-07-26&type=c