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)
>
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