The R project (http://www.r-project.org) has been building under MinGW-w64 since mid-January. We have ca 2500 extension packages, ca 800 of which contain DLLs in C/C++/Fortran/more-than-one-of-those.
In those couple of months the snapshots (at least the i686-mingw ones) have gone from dynamic loading of libgfortran/libstdc++ to static loading and back again. Was this intentional? We can cope with either (but prefer static) but with several hundred DLLs to check and an automated build process we could use some consistency -- we have already tens and soon to be hundreds of developers who will download a snapshot and work on their own extension package. We do realize MinGW-w64 is a 'work in progress' project based on unreleased versions of GCC. But as we are about to commit to production use on a quite large scale, it would be helpful at least to know the plans so we can write future-proof documentation for the would-be users (where 'future' means 6 months until the next documentation release). Thank you. Brian Ripley -- Brian D. Ripley, [email protected] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
