[Mingw-cross-env-list] Mingw-w64 thoughts (was OSX 10.6 workarounds)

[Tony Theodore]

2009/11/12 Volker Grabsch <address@hidden>:
> Tony Theodore <address@hidden> schrieb:
>> 2009/11/11 Volker Grabsch <address@hidden>:
>> > Maybe the patch is not needed? What happens to the GCC build
>> > if you leave it out and just fix Binutils? What error messages
>> > to you get?
>>
>> Without the patch, gcc fails with this error:
>>
>> ld: duplicate symbol _init_inline_once in libbackend.a(tree-inline.o)
>> and tree-inline.o
>>
>> It seems to be more related to ld being overly strict, and is only
>> required for gcc-4.4.0 - it's fixed in later versions.
>
> Okay, I included the patch. Let's hope we can drop it in
> future versions.
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/7969882a932c
>
>
> BTW, there are already TDM patches for gcc-4.4.1, but I
> wasn't able to get them to work. In the meantime we updated
> Binutils, but GCC-4.4.1 still doesn't work. It fails with:
>
>    configure: error: Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.
>
> I attached a patch to switch from GCC 4.4.0 to 4.4.1, in
> case anyone likes to work on that issue.

I get the same error here and cant find any clues to get started.

You pointed out mingw-64 a few months ago, and I think I'll have a
look at that instead. The wiki page looks very promising.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/Cross%20Win32%20and%20Win64%20compiler

Have you done any work on it? Is is part of the roadmap? Is there much
interest in win64 applications at the moment?

Your thoughts.

Tony