William schrieb: > - mingw-cross-env is great because there are already hundreds of > already supported cross-compiled packages, and a nice tutorial to > get started. It is easy to use : download, then run "make" > - mingw-w64 is great because you can compile either 64 or 32 bits > windows binaries, and it is easy to switch from 32 to 64. > [...] > A merge of the projects seems not easy. [...]
There are already two plans in mingw-cross-env you should know about, to avoid duplicate work. First, we are indeed willing to switch from MinGW to MinGW-w64 even for 32-Bit, but there were some issues preventing us from doing that. (see emails from Tony Theodore on mingw-cross-env-list who analyzed that some time ago) Second, we'll support a multi-target build system in the near future. That means, mingw-cross-env will be able to build a MinGW toolchain for 32-bit as well as a MinGW-w64 toolchain for 64-bit. There may even be separate toolchains for completely-shared-library and completely-static-library. And there might even come an OSX cross toolchain, in which case we'll have to think about renaming the "mingw-cross-env" project to something more generic. Unfortunately, I haven't yet got around to evaluate the existing code (especially Tony's experimental work) and to adjust our main Makefile accordingly. However, I'll take this discussion as a sign to hurry up with that, so we'll be able to integrate works on 64-bit, shared-library-build and OSX-builds in the near future. Merging those forks back into mingw-cross-env is IMHO definitely the way to go. Regards, Volker -- Volker Grabsch ---<<(())>>--- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
