MinGW build of GDB 8.2.90

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On 28.02.2019 21:55, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> On Thursday, February 28 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:51:12 +0400 (+04) Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>>
>>> I have just finished creating the gdb-8.2.90 pre-release.
>>> It is available for download at the following location:
>>>
>>>     ftp://sourceware.org/pub/gdb/snapshots/branch/gdb-8.2.90.tar.xz
>>
>> Thanks, I've built this with mingw.org's MinGW and bumped into a few
>> problems.
>>
>> First, the recent changes to support IPv6 caused compilation errors in
>> several files.  The problem is with several fragments such as this
>> one:
>>
>>   #ifdef USE_WIN32API
>>   #include <winsock2.h>
>>   #include <wspiapi.h>
>>   #else
>>   ...
>>
>> mingw.org's MinGW doesn't have wspiapi.h.  Moreover, the Microsoft
>> documentation indicates that to get prototypes of getaddrinfo,
>> freeaddrinfo, etc. one needs to include ws2tcpip.h (and not include
>> winsock2.h separately)
> However, and more importantly, I remember testing the whole patch by
> compiling it using a mingw32 compiler on Fedora, and it was working
> correctly.  In fact, we even have a mingw32 builder on our BuildBot
> (running on Fedora), and it is still compiling GDB without problems:
> 
>   https://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/builders/Fedora-x86_64-w64-mingw32
> 
> So apparently this error is only triggered when you use mingw on
> Windows...?  I don't know.
> 

Obviously, Fedora cross-compiler is mingw-w64, not mingw.org. Big difference,
feature-wise.

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