On 7/30/2010 05:59, Luis Lavena wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Earnie<[email protected]> wrote: >> 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: where specifically is uname source code? I can take a look to > Windows API and since I have a x64 OS can check different results and > let you know. > > If I can add proper identification of x86_64 (based from the OS it is > running) will make me feel better for making you guys waste all this > time answering this thread. >
Hi, I think its a bad idea to jump to conclusions based on OS running. What if I wanted to run plain mingw.org GCC on win64? IMHO, setting MSYSTEM would be a better approach. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
