Re: thread model for mxe-octave build

[John W. Eaton]

On 02/25/2018 04:24 PM, JohnD wrote:
> > As an aside, I think you only reason we needed multilib was so that we
> > could also compile nsis in when doing win64.
> >
> > Not sure if that is still a limitation with newer versions.
> >
> >
> > If I get a chance I will take a look at gcc and nsis as well.
>
> I played around with it a little and see the same you are seeing with the 
> incompatible thread line search.
> Removing the links and similar efforts either lead to gcc not finding other 
> files, or still incompatible threads.
>
> Removing multilib however does compile gcc ok.

OK, and yes, I think it was only so we could build NSIS with a 32-bit 
compiler.  MXE doesn't do multilib, but builds separate compilers for 
32- or 64-bit builds.

jwe