From: smiley <mem...@fa...> - 2006-07-20 08:09:21
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Hi guys; it has been some time since gcc was released in version 4.0, but mingw is still in 3.4.x? I just wonder if 4.0 is going to be released as mingw and/or what is cousing so big troubles that 4.1 can't be compiled. I also wonder why are there so many unix applications ported under mingw umbrella? Most of those that are in mingw "distro" are already ported by gnuwin32 project (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/). These are already native, not dependent on cygwin emulation so I wonder why are mingw ppl duplicating the work (& space)? Since I have been user of mingw since long ago, and have great interest in getting gcc 4.1 to work on windows, I wonder if I can somehow help in getting this one to work? Documentation on compilinge gcc under windows seem to be very scarce, so I wonder if anyone can point me in some direction where I can start, what are problems in porting 4.0 series ... etc? Btw - I hope u don't mind criticism; I'm big fan of mingw and user of msys since many years back. I was drown to mingw projects 'coz I didn't want to install almost entire redhat distro (cygwin) on windows machine just in order to use bash and gcc tools for programming. Msys was a great thing, small & simple, but it seems to me that it's slowly growing to cygwin proportions :-). I don't have much time, but I would really like to help if I can; & I mean more constructive then contributing "constructive criticism" so if u can point me in right direction to start, I'll be more then glad to try help with getting gcc 4.1 to compile on win. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... |