On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:39 PM, JonY <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/15/2010 19:13, Wolfgang Glas wrote: >> On 2010-09-15 10:50, Ozkan Sezer wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Wolfgang Glas<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> You might call it packagers' fate, however we have a couple of productive >>>> packages out there, which build and run very well with gcc-4.4 ;-) >>> >>> Out of curiosity, are those packages failing with newer gcc, or are you >>> just being strict for choosing the compiler version? >> >> It took us a hell lot of time to build up a debian repository >> (http://deb.clazzes.org) with >> mingw-w64,zlib,libxml,omniorb,libpng,libtiff,qt4 >> etc. and we're happy that all this stuff plays together well and is stable, >> where stable means more than having a stable compiler toolchain. >> >> So we did not have the time to play with gcc-4.5.x for now. Moreover, it's >> not >> so easy to keep up to date with all the different packaging philosophies out >> there, we have mingw-w64 snapshots, sezero, TDM, dimitij Ledkovs's debian >> packaging efforts.... >> >> ....many ways to get confused :-/ >> > > Be warned that gcc 4.x.x-4.5.0 ABI is not compatible with future versions. > > From 4.5.1 and 4.6.x onwards, 64-bit symbols do not have the "_" > prefix. Binutils CVS (2.20.51 as of writing) is also needed.
My 4.4-based builds have backports of those changes. > > As for different builds, the autobuilds are as vanilla as possible > without any patches, Hmm, IIRC, a few things were missing in 4.5 as compared to 4.6, such as lto for x64. (Nothing crucial, of course.) > meant for testing but it is usable. > > sezero builds do get some attention from Ozkan, so its mostly OK. I > can't say much for the other builds though. > -- O.S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
