2014-11-24 13:02 GMT+03:00 marius adrian popa <[email protected]>:
> Please review his patches one by one and add the relevant comments
>
> for 2.5 branch
> https://github.com/Alexpux/firebird/tree/mingw-w64-2_5
> Pull request #3
> https://github.com/asfernandes/firebird/pull/3
> for master branch
> https://github.com/Alexpux/firebird/tree/mingw-w64
> Pull request #4
> https://github.com/asfernandes/firebird/pull/4
>
>
>
Finally, I'm now be able to build Firebird3 too.
Can my patches be applied upstream?
Regards,
Alexey.
>
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Alexpux <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> 23 нояб. 2014 г., в 20:19, Dmitry Yemanov <[email protected]>
>> написал(а):
>>
>> 23.11.2014 19:12, Alexpux wrote:
>>
>>
>> I’m use Firebird about 7 years and now I’m interesting in build Firebird
>> with mingw-w64 toolchains.
>>
>>
>> Out of curiosity, why you need to build it yourself instead of using the
>> official binaries? This is quite uncommon for Windows users.
>>
>>
>> I’m leader of MSYS2 project - new implementation of MSYS on top of
>> current Cygwin codebase:
>> http://msys2.github.io
>> We work with mingw-w64 team to improve Windows support in mingw-w64.
>> MSYS2 have package manager «pacman» ported from Arch Linux. And we provide
>> a great number of free software builded with mingw-w64 to our users via
>> packages. Currently we build:
>> https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages
>> But number of builded software a always grown.
>> Interested users porting software, send patches upstream and provide
>> scripts to build with pacman.
>> We provide packages only for software that we can build ourself with
>> mingw-w64 - no 3rd party binaries.
>>
>>
>> Most free databases build with mingw toolchains ok and used with it.
>>
>>
>> I have no problems with mingw used for compilation, but why would one
>> prefer using the mingw-produced binaries to the MSVC-produced ones?
>>
>> I’m wonder why Firebird developers want to remove mingw support at all.
>>
>>
>> Having all programs/libraries builded with the same toolchain help to
>> debug and fix issues.
>>
>>
>> We remove support for something that's not maintained. If you will be
>> maintaining the mingw port, your patches may be accepted. Did you test
>> them with MSVC and Linux/gcc?
>>
>>
>> Patches sended to bug tracker are simple and not break anything.
>>
>> Dmitry
>>
>>
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