2010/6/15 Ruben Van Boxem <[email protected]>
> 2010/6/14 Andreas Fabri <[email protected]>
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I try to install mingw-64, msys, and gmp 5.0.1
>>
>> I follow the explanation gven by Ruben Van Boxem <vanboxem.ru...@gm..
>> in the mailing list (I removed the prefix of the .exe files though)
>>
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=AANLkTilI0Pv5dbWeckloeDyjbOwSUJBEGYwpCwQbpIRq%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=mingw-w64-public
>>
>> and I get stuck with an error message. Any help is welcome.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Andreas Fabri
>>
>>
>> $ ./configure --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-alloca=no
>> --host=x86_64
>>
>> -w64-mingw32
>> configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use
>> --host.
>> If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
>> checking build system type... core2-pc-mingw32
>>
>
> First, to get people reading this list to use our wiki page:
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/MSYS
> It mentions the solution I describe below for your problem.
>
> Some oddities:
> ----------------------
> - build system type should always be reported as i686-pc-mingw32, but I'm
> assuming this is a typo.
> - It might be necessary to keep a copy of the prefixed toolchain (the
> x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe and so forth), especially when using MSYS because
> you are *essentially* crosscompiling. If you hate renaming everything and
> don't *need* GCC 4.5, use sezero's toolchains, they are "MSYS-ready" so to
> speak (contain both prefixed and unprefixed copies).
> - I tried configuring GMP and am also having trouble. It seems configure
> is not pleased with ld or gcc/g++ as a linker (should be reported imho,
> link.exe is a coreutils app, not part of any toolchain).
>
> A solution:
> ----------------
> I just built GMP successfully:
> configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --target=x86_64-w64-mingw32
> --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-alloca=no
> make
> make check
> make install
>
> The "target" is not necessary for most other builds, but apparantly GMP
> requires it.
>
> FYI: I have uploaded my compile of GMP 5.0.1 for x64 Windows. Just unzip
> the x86_64-w64-mingw32 folder to your mingw64 folder (so that the lib, bin
> and include folders match up of course). This failed the one test that has
> been patched upstream, but the bug was in the test itself, the build and
> library itself is fine (see this
> thread<https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=AANLkTilYfIjBVRPLt645F14gLERcp9-2hVCMF-azj0Qr%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=mingw-w64-public>for
> an explanation).
>
(slaps himself on forehead) You'll need to delete link.exe from msys/bin for
this to work. I'll try to find out if there is a better solution. You can
always use the fresh binaries now :)
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