On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:43:41AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote: > On 19.01.2015, at 03:05, Michael Niedermayer <michae...@gmx.at> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 10:00:25AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote: > >> Useful to select e.g. between mingw32, 32-bit mingw64 and 64-bit mingw64 > >> toolchains, which all are not cross-compilation toolchains. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Reimar Döffinger <reimar.doeffin...@gmx.de> > > > > is this intended for building with mingw* on windows ? > > if so it should be ok > > the patch just confused me a bit as i build with mingw64 (32&64bit) > > just fine on linux without any of this > > Yes, but you have to specify --arch and --target-os, and not sure if > disabling runtime-cpudetection would work etc.
> It's even more annoying if you want to compile for 32 bit on a 64 bit system > (you can use -m32 at least in some cases, but this seems simpler and more > consistent). hmm at least ubuntu has seperate packages for 32 and 64bit gcc-mingw-w64-i686 and gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64 so building for the 32bit variant is just like cross compiling to any other target > > > also maybe it could be more clearly documented what this is intended > > for > > Ok, I'll try to improve the commit message, but where else to document it/how? > --help doesn't seem like a good place for long explanations (though maybe I > can think of a better short explanation). > Maybe "select a different toolchain without cross-compiling, e.g. for > compiling for i686 on a x86_64 system or with mingw64 on cygwin"? ok and the wiki is maybe the best place to document [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. -- Aristotle
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