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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630522 --- Comment #5 from Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> 2010-09-06 10:18:23 EDT --- (In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > The "Fedora MinGW" project is a little misnamed. We're really just a Fedora > > Windows gcc cross-compiler and we use a bit of runtime from mingw.org > > (although later on we intend to replace as much as possible with code from > > the separate mingw-w64 project). The fact that mingw.org also builds > > some libraries isn't really anything to do with this project. > Hmm, to me this is a pretty bewildering excuse, because a cross toolchain > which > doesn't match the native host's libraries it targets, is widely free of sense > and useless. Not quite sure what you mean by this. _I_ meant that we target Microsoft Windows which has some DLLs that we support (eg. user32.dll). zlib is not AFAIK a part of Microsoft Windows: I checked and it is not included in Windows 7. Microsoft ship a library called lz32.dll which is their native compression library (it could be based on the zlib code, I'm not sure). > > You really won't find that mingw.org libraries they happen to build are > > compatible with our cross-compiled libraries (although the most acute > > incompatibilities are with C++ programs). Ship our zlib1.dll to be > > on the safe side. > > Well, then you likely may want to launch a native mingw32 distro, matching > your > ming32 packages, such that your ming32 toolchain finally has a target platform > or help mingw32.org? That's never been a part of any plan that I'm aware of. This project has always been about cross-compiling binaries so that they can run on Microsoft Windows. > However, I'd seriously recommend you fix your toolchain to match with that > toolchain packages windoze users are really using (mingw.org). > I regret, but in it's present shape your cross-toolchain is more a waste of > diskspace but real support for cross-building to Windows. We don't expect that users have installed mingw.org. We want to ship binaries which can run completely independently of this, just on plain MS Windows. This has always been the goal of the project. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ mingw mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/mingw
