Re: [ITP] mingw-w64

[JonY <jon_y at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

On 6/28/2010 14:53, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 6/27/2010 8:32 PM, JonY wrote:
> > On 6/26/2010 19:59, JonY wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > mingw-w64 (mingw-w64.sourceforge.net) is a toolchain to target 64bit
> > > windows. It is setup as a cygwin hosted cross compiler. Currently it is
> > > split into 4 packages: headers, crt, binutils and gcc. The latter 2 is
> > > from FSF.
>
> Does this version support multilib? that is, it's a cygwin hosted
> compiler targeting only -m64, or also -m32?  If the latter, then...well,
> it's just good to know.

Currently, its not setup to be multilib, but it is possible if you want. 
I fixed up the gcc install process to put target dlls in toolexeclibdir, 
libgcc_s*.dll still clash though, if installed without manual intervention.

> > > GCC 4.6 (trunk) was chosen to avoid the ABI change from 4.5.0 biting
> > > users. LTO is also enabled.
> > >
> > > I would admit packaging could be a bit better, I'm open to suggestions
> > > for improvement.
> > >
> > > mingw-w64 headers:
> > > <https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Cygwin%20Snapshots/dist/w64-headers/w64-headers-20100625-1.tar.bz2>
>
> I know headers are, by definition, source, but I'm not sure if
> setup.exe's tiny little brain can grok a package like this, without a
> corresponding source.  Should its setup.hint have an
>     "external-source: ???"
> record?

OK, I'll try to do that.

> I'm pretty sure all of the w64-gcc-??? language binary packages should
> have one, specifying w64-gcc as their source provider.  And w64-gcc-rt
> is probably misnamed.  If it contains the DLLs (like libgcc*.dll or
> whatever it is named, plus the corresponding DLLs for g++&  fortran),
> they should be split up into separate "libfoo" packages. This makes
> representing dependency information for apps compiled using this
> compiler more granular. E.g.
>
> Consider "regular" cygwin gcc(4)'s runtime library packages:
> 	libgcc1
> 	libstdc++6
> 	libgfortran3
>
> If you *really* want to prefix everything with w64 to indicate which
> "compiler family" they belong to, then something like
> 	w64-mingw64-libgcc1
> 	w64-mingw64-libstdc++6
> 	w64-mingw64-libgfortran3
> or similar would be good.  If the compiler is multilib (e.g. supports
> also -m32), then the 32bit runtime libs should have their OWN separate
> packages, perhaps
>          w64-mingw32-libgcc1
>          w64-mingw32-libstdc++6
>          w64-mingw32-libgfortran3

Ok, I'll split the DLLs.