Chiheng Xu wrote: > 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,
That isn't going to happen which is why I forked Cygwin to create 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. > Instructions have been provided for building MSYS runtime dependent applications in the mingw.org wiki. I understand why you might want expect and dejagnu to be available. But are you going to be able to test a 64bit version of GCC with a 32bit version of expect and dejagnu? Earnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
