Re: [Mingw-users] Binary compatibility between mingwrt/w32api/binutils versions?

[Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@us...>]

On Monday 30 November 2009 09:20:18 Alexander Shaduri wrote:
> I'd like to know if there is a guaranteed binary compatibility
> between different mingwrt, w32api and binutils versions.

Did you read the licensing/distribution terms?  THERE IS NO WARRANTY 
OF ANY KIND.  A guarantee is a kind of warranty, so no, you get no 
such guarantee; neither do you have any right to expect or seek one.

That said, there is a reasonable probability of finding such 
compatibility, (to the extent that Microsoft maintain it in their 
DLLs), but we will not give you any guarantee.

-- 

Regards,
Keith.

[Mingw-users] Binary compatibility between mingwrt/w32api/binutils versions?

[Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri@gm...>]

Hello all,

I'd like to know if there is a guaranteed binary compatibility between
different mingwrt, w32api and binutils versions.

Specifically, say I have a dll compiled with mingw's gcc 3.4.5,
binutils 2.19.1, w32api 3.13 and mingwrt 3.16.
If I upgrade any of those packages (except gcc), will I be able to
have a guaranteed compatibility when linking to that dll?
Or do I have to recompile it with a new toolchain to correctly link to it?

The reason I'm asking is that, as far as I know, some of the stuff
from headers (constants, etc...), as well as some other stuff from mingwrt
can be compiled in statically. Won't this create a problem when a
dll compiled with one version is linked to a binary compiled with another
version?

Thanks in advance,
Alexander

Re: [Mingw-users] Guaranteed binary compatibility between mingwrt/w32api/binutils versions?

[Earnie Boyd <earnie@us...>]

Quoting Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri@...>:

>
> Hello all,
>
> I'd like to know if there is a guaranteed binary compatibility between
> different mingwrt, w32api and binutils versions.
>

The only guaranteeable method for this is for you to build the  
binaries from the source code with your compiler.  There is no such  
guarantee that we can give on the downloaded binaries.  Each package  
is uploaded separately, at differing times and by differing  
maintainers who have disparate systems from one another.

--
Earnie

Re: [Mingw-users] Binary compatibility between mingwrt/w32api/binutils versions?

[Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@us...>]

On Monday 30 November 2009 09:20:18 Alexander Shaduri wrote:
> I'd like to know if there is a guaranteed binary compatibility
> between different mingwrt, w32api and binutils versions.

Did you read the licensing/distribution terms?  THERE IS NO WARRANTY 
OF ANY KIND.  A guarantee is a kind of warranty, so no, you get no 
such guarantee; neither do you have any right to expect or seek one.

That said, there is a reasonable probability of finding such 
compatibility, (to the extent that Microsoft maintain it in their 
DLLs), but we will not give you any guarantee.

-- 

Regards,
Keith.