Re: TR1 under Windows 2000?

[FÖLDY Lajos]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Scott Meyers wrote:

> I'm interested in experimenting with the TR1 functionality in g++ (per
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/ext/tr1.html).  My understanding
> is that this is part of libstd++ only as of g++ 4.  I'm currently using
> a MinGW port that contains g++ 3.4.2, and there does not appear to be
> any TR1 functionality in the version of libstdc++ that ships with that
> release.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to upgrade to g++ 4 on Windows 2000, but I'd prefer to
> use a prebuilt binary, and the current MinGW port seems to include only
> gcc 3.4.x (per http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml), while Cygwin seems
> to include 3.3.3 or 3.4.4 (per
> http://sourceware.org/cygwin/packages/gcc-g++/ from
> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/packages/).
>
> I have two questions:
>
> - Is there a prebuilt version of gcc 4 for Windows (along with
>  instructions on how to install it) available somewhere?  Googling both
>  web pages and newsgroup postings failed to turn anything up in this
>  regard.
>
> - Failing that, is there a way to download a version of libstdc++
>  containing TR1 support and use that with my existing gcc 3.4.2 MinGW
>  installation?
>
> In general, I welcome all suggestions on how to experiment with gcc
> support for TR1 under Windows 2000.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott

There is a mini-howto for building GCC 4.1.1 for Windows (including W2K):

        http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2006-09/msg00000.html

Good luck!

regards,
lajos