NightStrike wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Earnie<[email protected]>  wrote:
>    
>> NightStrike wrote:
>>      
>>>   On a long term scale, it'd be nice to compile msys natively for
>>>   win64. That's a looooong way off, though.
>>>
>>>        
>> I have no way to even begin to try it.  First though one would need to
>> bootstrap GCC 64 bits with the MSYS runtime while at the same time
>> bootstrapping MSYS runtime into 64 bits.
>>      
> I thought the first step was porting newlib.  Doesn't msys still use that?
>    
Yes, it uses newlib and a mix of Windows API calls.  But newlib may 
actually be the easier part to convert.

Earnie

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