On 13.01.2014 19:41, Stephen Kitt wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:21:12 +0100, Adrien Nader <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014, Peter Kümmel wrote: >>> What's mingw-w64's "state-of-the-art" way of cross compiling on Linux >>> (Ubuntu)? >> >> As Ruben pointed out, you can use the binaries from your distribution. >> In the case of Ubuntu, you inherit the ones from Debian most probably. >> However that means it's going to lag quite a lot, especially if there is >> no corresponding maintainer on ubuntu's side. > > The various Debian-based distributions have whatever was current at the time > they freeze (irrespective of when Debian freezes). So Ubuntu 13.10 has > mingw-w64 r5915 (it froze just before 3.0.0 was released), and 14.04 will have > whatever is current when it freezes (it has 3.1.0 currently). gcc-mingw-w64 > lagged a bit because of the gnat-4.8 delay, so Ubuntu 13.10 has 4.6.3, but > 14.04 will have at least 4.8.2 (and future versions won't have the gnat > problem).
Yes, all current packages are "sooo" old ;) > > I'm working on introducing a new partial architecture in Debian, which will > allow us to easily (for some value of "easily") build lots of libraries and > binaries with security support and all the rest. I'll be talking about this > at the mini-DebConf in Paris this weekend. > > Regards, > > Stephen (the Debian Developer behind the curtain) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Mingw-w64-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
