Re: [Mingw-users] GCC 3.4.6 builds

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Monday 30 July 2007 16:06, Steve Chapel wrote:
> So it looks like what needs to be done is:
>
> * promote the GCC 3.4.5 builds to current (ideally builds that run on
> Vista as well as older Windows versions)

Yes, but I'm not convinced that the previous/current/candidate package
structure serves us well, since SF changed the presentation style for the
downloads page.  I'm toying with the idea of reorganising it, more along
the lines SF expect projects to use.

> * update the wiki to point to those current builds, as well as
> current builds of  mingw-runtime, w32api, gdb, and binutils
>
> I would update the wiki myself, but I seem to get PHP errors every
> time I attempt to sign in.

IIRC, that's a symptom of not using a valid WikiWiki word, as your user
name, when you attempt to sign in; it *must* start with *one* upper case
letter, followed by one or more lower case, then another in upper case,
again followed by one or more lower case; see:
http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/MinGWiki%20Pages

> It looks like the downloads for GCC 3.4.5 are:
>
> http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/binutils-2.16.91-20060119-1.tar.gz?download
> http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz?download
> http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-g++-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz?download
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-runtime-3.12.tar.gz?modtime=1174904892&big_mirror=1
> http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/w32api-3.6.tar.gz?download
>
> with optional downloads:
> http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-objc-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz?download
> http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-g77-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz?download
> http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-java-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz?download
> http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-ada-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz?download
>
> Are there a newer current releases of binutils and w32api I'm missing?

Yes, the most recent stable packages are here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=82723&release_id=177460
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=82721&release_id=158847

> Where's a current release of gdb?

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=82724&release_id=190586

Notice that this includes both gdb-6.3 and gdb-6.6; I'd recommend
gdb-6.6, as it seems to have fixed some bugs present in gdb-6.3.
Neither has had a long enough exposure, or sufficient feed back from
users, for me to consider promoting to `current' just yet.

> Do I really need to install the C++ compiler, or is it actually
> optional? 

It's optional, so gcc-g++-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz may be moved to the
optional package group.

> If I can gather this information and can sign in to edit the wiki,
> I'll update the Getting Started page with this information.

That would be appreciated, thanks.
Keith.