Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MinGW64 status for use in blender3D

[JonY <jo...@us...>]

On 3/12/2012 04:09, Antony Riakiotakis wrote:
> Hi, thanks for the reply!
> 
> I know there are nightly and personal builds but was refering to
> official builds of official releases.
> Maybe I oversaw them but couldn't locate these in the binary list.
> 
> About libraries I meant clashes in 32bit vs 64bit libraries when
> linking with the compilers as the link I have posted reports.
> 
> Thanks for the configuration, if all else turns out fine I can test this.

I would say the article author has a really screwed up toolchain install
or is trolling or is clueless about using GCC on Windows.

I don't know why the author has so much problems with 32bit vs 64bit
DLLs. You don't need to copy any DLLs, or use anything from System32
(Why did the author do it in the first place??), the import libraries
are already there.

As for good toolchain builds, there aren't really any official binary
builds, you can try Ruben's on Windows, or use the makebuildroot*.mk
makefiles to build a cross compiler on Linux.

The automated builds are there, but infrequently done due to buildbot
outages, but its released more for testing purpose than for general use.