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[ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: mingw-binutils-2.21-1
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:21:14 -0400
- Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: mingw-binutils-2.21-1
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
The mingw-binutils package provides the GNU Binary Utilities for
the MinGW (i686-pc-mingw32) toolchain. The GNU Binary Utilities include
the linker (i686-pc-mingw32-ld), library archiver (i686-pc-mingw32-ar),
and various other tools.
These tools are used by the MinGW cross compiler, as well as
by the (deprecated) gcc3 compiler in its -mno-cygwin mode.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!! WARNING !!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IF you are attempting to update an existing cygwin installation, which
has the gcc-mingw 'add-on' packages installed (*), then you MUST
upgrade the gcc-mingw packages to version 20050522-3 or newer, before
installing this package. Do NOT attempt to upgrade gcc-mingw and
install this package during the same setup.exe event. The reason for
this restriction is fairly complex, and is detailed here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2011-04/msg00015.html
If you are reading this announcement AFTER having messed up your cygwin
installation, because you didn't follow these instructions or didn't
know about them, then see the section in this message
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2011-04/msg00015.html
that begins with "HELP!!!" and follow the suggestions there to "fix" it.
(*) gcc-mingw packages are "add-ons" to the gcc-3 compiler suite, and
provide the necessary files for the -mno-cygwin mode of that
compiler. Ideally, this package and the accompanying
i686-pc-mingw32 cross compiler will supplant the old
'gcc-3 -mno-cygwin' mode.
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*** NOTE 1 ***
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If you have installed the "missing" mingw cross compiler packages from
http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/mingw-gcc/
then you need take no special action. This package will simply upgrade
the cygutils.fruitbat.org one.
--
Charles Wilson
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To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link
on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to
your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.
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