[ITP] mingw-w64

NightStrike nightstrike@gmail.com
Fri Jul 2 17:44:00 GMT 2010


On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is mingw64 already part of a major Linux distribution? Otherwise it
> needs five votes from Cygwin maintainers.

Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora.

> Also, are you sure that gcc-4.6 is sufficiently stable for release,
> i.e. that there won't be any more compatibility breaking changes
> before official release?

It is unlikely given the roadmap of 4.6.

> Finally, I'm not sure what the conclusion was about which toolchain(s)
> will be included. Looks like a single multilib toolchain defaulting to
> 64 bits to me. If that's the case, is the "tc64" bit in the name
> actually needed?

I thought it was both.



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