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Confusion between 32 & 64, is this normal?

David Hall
2017-04-04
2017-04-04
  • David Hall

    David Hall - 2017-04-04

    I have been experimenting with programming a GUI application with Win10 for a couple years now.
    It's all put together using Eclipse IDE. I have used Qt 5.5 libraries for all the QtGUI and QtWidgets, etc.
    and have used MinGW for the MinGW32-make and g++ and gdb. That was 2016...Everything was fine.

    Now it is 2017
    I've now changed to Qt 5.8 and it works fine but....
    I reinstalled MinGW and there are instructions in installing C:\MinGW\32 and C:\MinGW\64
    so I did that

    In the 32 branch there is no MinGW32-make.exe, but in the 64 branch there is (??)...and it doesn't work with my project

    In the 32 branch there is a gdb.exe debugger but he is : "This GDB was configured as "x86_64-w64-mingw32" " and doesn't work

    But in the 64 branch there is a gdb32.exe debugger which works (??) "This GDB was configured as "mingw32"."

    When I downloaded this MinGW anew a week ago I specified 'all packages'.

    Is this normal, having the 32 bit and 64 bit exe files mixed up like this????

    P.S. I went to the MinGW website again and specifically downloaded MinGW32-make.exe inside
    make-3.82.90-2-mingw32-cvs-20120902-bin.tar.lzma
    and used it....a file from 2012 !!!!

     
    • NightStrike

      NightStrike - 2017-04-04

      On Apr 4, 2017 7:14 AM, "David Hall" rapidrain@users.sf.net wrote:

      I have been experimenting with programming a GUI application with Win10 for
      a couple years now.
      It's all put together using Eclipse IDE. I have used Qt 5.5 libraries for
      all the QtGUI and QtWidgets, etc.
      and have used MinGW for the MinGW32-make and g++ and gdb. That was
      2016...Everything was fine.

      Now it is 2017
      I've now changed to Qt 5.8 and it works fine but....
      I reinstalled MinGW and there are instructions in installing C:\MinGW\32
      and C:\MinGW\64
      so I did that

      In the 32 branch there is no MinGW32-make.exe, but in the 64 branch there
      is (??)...and it doesn't work with my project

      In the 32 branch there is a gdb.exe debugger but he is : "This GDB was
      configured as "x86_64-w64-mingw32" " and doesn't work

      But in the 64 branch there is a gdb32.exe debugger which works (??) "This
      GDB was configured as "mingw32"."

      When I downloaded this MinGW anew a week ago I specified 'all packages'.

      Is this normal, having the 32 bit and 64 bit exe files mixed up like
      this????

      P.S. I went to the MinGW website again and specifically downloaded
      MinGW32-make.exe inside
      make-3.82.90-2-mingw32-cvs-20120902-bin.tar.lzma
      and used it....a file from 2012 !!!!

      Which files exactly are you downloading?

       
  • David Hall

    David Hall - 2017-04-04

    I went here :
    http://ascend4.org/Setting_up_a_MinGW-w64_build_environment#MinGW-w64
    and followed the instructions up to the point before Dependency Walker
    Switchable 32- and 64-bit modes interests me.

    A lot of this leaves me in a fog

     

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