We can not advertise some sort of franken-compiler as an officially supported. Either the issues are solved in upstream or we don't consider compiler officially supported.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Yousef Harfoush <[email protected]> wrote: > > Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 23:08:42 +0500 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] MinGW support > > > > 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. > > i use mingw 4.72 with added openmp libs from here: > http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download > and threading works properly no crashes, at least in my workflow. > > > Regards > Yousef Harfoush > [email protected] > > > > > > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
