-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/16/2011 00:18, K. Frank wrote: > Hi Ben! > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Ben Key <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello K. Frank, >> >> Thanks for your response. I asked if Cygwin was required because it is not >> clear what I should download. In the "Toolchains targetting Win32 / >> Automated Builds" area all of the builds that are not for the Mac or Linux >> have cygwin in the host field. Can these builds be used without Cygwin or >> should I be downloading something else? > > Hmm. I hadn't paid attention to the naming of the automated builds. (For > whatever reason, I've been using the personal builds.) I would think that the > automated builds should run just fine on native windows (no cygwin; after all, > that's what they're for. (This excludes, of course, the actual > cross-compilers > that run, e.g., on linux, but produce windows executables.) >
If you've downloaded the Cygwin hosted cross compiler, it will need Cygwin. The mingw hosted toolchains don't need Cygwin to run, though you'll have to install something like MSYS separately if you need a unix like environment. > But the naming convention does raise the question. Hopefully someone from > the mingw-w64 project might clear this up. (Or you could also just download > it and try it out -- unless you have a slow connection or are short on disk > space, it's pretty painless.) > >> There are builds in the "Toolchains targetting Win32 / Personal Builds" area >> that have mingw instead of cygwin in the host field but they do not seem to >> be kept as up to date as the "Toolchains targetting Win32 / Automated >> Builds" area. > > I've been using personal builds, most recently: > > mingw-w64-bin_x86_64-mingw_20101002_4.5_sezero.zip > Note that the position of "x86_64-mingw", this means its x86_64-mingw hosted, no cygwin required. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAk1bCn0ACgkQp56AKe10wHda6QCfXVUH7Vl1bRF8EGuySA5zzKgd qFsAn2VdLnrezaTJvI5ce3G08zYGn3uG =uZHJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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