Re: [Mingw-users] What's the relationship between GCC and MinGW

[Xiaobo Gu <gux...@gm...>]

MSYS does not provide GCC, it only provides some UNIX like tools on
Windows to emulate the *NIX environment.

By the way, what does "top post" mean?



On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:57 AM, JonY <jo...@us...> wrote:
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> On 1/27/2011 09:56, Xiaobo Gu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>    Thanks for your explanation, and there are a few others,
>> 1. Where to download specific versions of GCC for 64bit Windows,
>> because the packaged PostgreSQL source is only compatible of 4.5.0 and
>> 3.4.4  GCC.
>>
>
> Go see the mingw-w64 wiki for download and install instructions.
>
>> 2. Is there a compatibility list telling which version of GCC is
>> compatible with which versions of MinGW64
>>
>
> mingw-w64 requires at least 4.5.1, older releases for 64bit uses a
> different ABI, so using the new version saves you the trouble of
> recompiling all your libraries.
>
>> 3. Can you help with this
>> :http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-01/msg01959.php
>>
>
> In <http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-01/msg02308.php>,
> You used the MSYS compiler for MSYS development, wrong compiler. I
> really wonder why you were able to get it.
>
> Yes mingw-w64 can produce 64bit executables, but its a separate project
> from mingw32. See <http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/>.
>
> PS.
> Please don't top post, it breaks threading. Thanks.
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