Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] [GCC] version specific drivers and runtimes

[Christopher F. <cg...@re...>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:16:40AM +1200, Danny Smith wrote:
>Does mingw want to have facility to have gcc-2.95 drivers, compilers and
>runtime libs in same tree as 3.x.
>
>This can be done by changing the gcc exe names of 2.95 binaries (in
><prefix>/bin dir)  to gcc2 (as per cygwin experiment) and putting the
>language runtime libs. headers and language compilers (cc1.exe. etc)  in
>/mingw/lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/<gcc-version>.
>
>so that 'gcc2 foo.c' will call the cc1.exe in the 2.95-.3-x directory,
>include the correct gcc-2.95 system includes and link in the correct
>gcc-2.95  system libs.  ditto for g++2 and g772.  I haven't played with
>objc yet, but it should work too.
>
>default 'gcc foo.c' will do the 3.x thing.
>
>The gcc2 package would be separate but could be part of the bigger mingw
>x.x  package if wanted.
>
>This means that users won't need to have separate 2.95 and 3.x trees,
>with duplicated binutils, w32api and mingw-runtime.

Out of curiousity, is there actually a way to do this short of renaming
the binaries (mv gcc gcc2) "by hand" when you're done?  I couldn't find
one but I didn't look incredibly hard.

>I have rebuilt the gcc-2.95 binaries, with Wu's patches (wint_t and
>is_del); and Eric's fastcall  patch
>and would use that in new package. What have I missed?

Agh.  I forgot about these patches.  Wish we had a branch for 2.95, too.

cgf