Re: [Mingw-users] Building a recent cross linux-mingw32 toolchain

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

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 05:46 -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Erik Leunissen wrote:
> 
> > Am I going to do something that won't work, or is this supposed to
> > go smoothly? (Maybe any recommendations for using specific versions
> > of the tools, or other things that I need to be aware of ... ?)
> 
> If you use stock FSF release of gcc you will have somewhat of a broken
> compiler, depending on what features you need to use.  The MinGW
> releases of gcc contain a fair amount of patches and fixes so that is
> why people (myself included) advocate that if you want a stable
> toolchain you build it from the -src tarballs at the MinGW download
> site which contain all of Danny's fixes.

That's sound advice.  Do note, however, that the suite of build scripts
we provide, and which I recommended earlier, are configured to download
and build from the source packages *we* distribute.  My OpenSUSE-10.0
compiler is, to all intents and purposes, identical with the GCC-3.4.5
MinGW Special build, which Danny has provided, and which we also still
distribute, as our current pre-built binary offering.

Regards,
Keith.