If we're going to keep supporting MinGW it should be latest official version. I remember we were having major issues with some system libraries (mainly threading and OpenMP), so it makes sense to re-evaluate if those issues are solved form MinGW side before trying to support all the libraries we need.
As for Clang -- it totally worth checking on it and see if it's any good replacement for MinGW, but that's a bit separate topic. Currently i'm just trying to get all areas well maintained and not left in some semi-working half-abandoned state. On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 10:38 PM, alekulyn <[email protected]> wrote: > I talked to psyfi over IRC around half a year ago and told him I'd like > to help with this. There have been several complications along the way, > such as which MinGW version we should use, rumors that clang was coming > into the picture, and general inactivity regarding anything MinGW. > > As for which MinGW version to use, my conversation with psyfi was mainly > about adding libraries to the mingw64_gcc49 branch he started. To that > end, I did compile some libraries with MinGW-W64 GCC 4.9, but I must > have deleted them some time ago. > > Anyway, like I told psyfi, I'm willing to help with this. Just need to > know which MinGW version to use. > > On 12/26/2015 5:12 PM, Sergey Sharybin wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > There are some missing precompiled libraries (sndfile, opensubdiv, OSL) > and > > some misng libraries update (python, SDL, OpenAL) for MinGW. > > > > This makes MinGW builds quite diverged from the official builds > feature-set > > and lib-version wise, moving MinGW builds to the boundary where we can't > > call it officially supported anymore. > > > > Additioanlly, svn:externals for mingw folders seems to be misconfigured > now > > and needs clean up. > > > > Anyone to have a look and fix all those issues? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- With best regards, Sergey Sharybin _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
