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Re: GCC 4.8 & cygwin32 vs. cygwin64 packages and installers
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:18:11 +0200
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.8 & cygwin32 vs. cygwin64 packages and installers
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On 10/09/2015 13:23, Tomasz Pona wrote:
Hello All,
I've been writing the Cygwin list ages ago, so welcome again.
wrong mailing list.
You should use for this question cygwin "at" cygwin "dot" com
For many years since my last visit I haven't bumped into any Cygwin
problem I couldn't cope with myself, so many thanks to all Cygwin devels
for your good job.
But now I run into a real problem with GNU GCC packages availability and
how they're presented in the installer.
My GCC availablity problem:
I need to work with GCC 4.8, but it isn't available anymore for
download. I uderstand obviousness of the versions succession, but the
upgrade to 4.9 was done only recently and the choice is between 4.9.2
and 4.9.3. I'd say this isn't significant version change. It'd be nice
to have a choice at least between 4.8 and 4.9 and great to be able to
work with several versions (since ~4.6) at once.
As cygwin is a rolling distri, maintaing multi compilers
will be very demanding.
My installer package presentation problem:
I noticed the GCC 4.8 is still available as "cygwin64-gcc-" under
"setup-x86" and as "cygwin32-gcc" under "setup-x86_64".
But I can't take any advantage of this, because:
- these packages land in separate cygwin/cygwin64 folders, like the'd be
installed using the other installer
- "setup-x86" has no "cygwin32-gcc-"
- "setup-x86_64" has no "cygwin64-gcc-"
Why GCC 4.8 isn't available as a default package when it is as
"cygwin32-gcc-"/"cygwin64-gcc-"?
cygwin32-gcc is a cross compiler from X86_64 to i686
cygwin64-gcc is a cross compiler from i686 to x86_64
gcc is the standard compiler available in both arch X86_64 and i686
Maybe you could just loosen the package presentation/availability rules
in your installers?
Thanks in advance for any response,
Tomasz Pona