On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:57 AM, 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. >
Is 64-bits MSYS or Cygwin necessary? MSYS may be not necessary at all. If Cygwin merge the changes done in MSYS, and provide a Win32_Path mode(translating all Unix paths to Win32 paths at fork/exec or spawn) and MinGW transform itself to use binary mode(linking with binmode.o instead of txtmode.o) and slightly patch uname.exe in coreutils, Cygwin has the potential to replace MSYS and provide many tools missing in MSYS, like tcl/tk, expect, dejagnu necessary for the testing of GCC/GDB/BINUTILS. -- Chiheng Xu Wuhan,China ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
