Re: [Mingw-users] Fwd: Re: Better mingw support

[Kai T. <kti...@go...>]

2013/4/2 Earnie Boyd schrieb:
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Ben Elliston wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 07:47:27AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>
>>> It is actually both.  The mingw-w64 project decided their triplet to
>>> be *-w64-mingw32.
>>
>> The manufacturer field is for just that.  For PC-class systems where
>> there are numerous manufacturers of more or less identical machines,
>> we use "pc".  If the OS is 64-bit Windows, then the OS field should be
>> w64.  OS/2 has an overlaid environment similar to MSYS called EMX.
>> Their triplet is:
>>
>>         echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}-pc-os2-emx
>>
>> I would have thought that for MSYS, you would have something like:
>>
>>   ${UNAME_MACHINE}-pc-w64-mingw
>
> I'm only trying to provide a solution for what has already been
> decided by others.  I'll let Kai Tietz speak to the choices of the
> triplet.
>
> --
> Earnie

The default to -pc-mingw32 is that what I prefer.  The vendor-key-part w64
was just introduced to allow users to build a toolchain with additional
features provided by mingw-w64 based builds.  Mingw-w64 always supported
also the *standard* feature-set (a triplet with any vendor-key != w64) too.

Kai