Hi , here is exactly how to do it , the installs seem consistent now , as I deleted the whole thing and reinstalled and it worked every time
The 64bit mingw comes configured as a cross compiler , which as far as we are concered just means that the gcc.exe etc are renamed to x86_64- w64-mingw32-gcc.exe so we have to pass these as params to configure Make sure all your old broken msys/mingw are deleted or out of the way Download MSYS-1.0.11.exe from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/BaseSystem/msys-core/msys-1.0.11/MSYS-1.0.11.exe/download Install it and select default options , a dos window will pop up , answer "n" to the post install question (this stops it trying to find mingw which it seems to get very confused about) Download mingw-w64-1,0-bin_i686-mingw_20110207.zip from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Automated%20Builds/ unzip this file into the c:\msys\1.0\mingw directory Your ready to go , ie ./configure --enable-cxx CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe NM=x86_64-w64- mingw32-nm.exe AR=x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar.exe CXX=x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++.exe make and make check The shared build fails make check with C++ but this is only because autotools gets the wrong directory for the dll , this was known before. A cross compiler is a pain , so to make it native we just rename all the exe's in the c:\msys\1.0\mingw\bin directory to give them the usual names via for i in *.exe ; do mv $i $(echo $i | cut -d - -f 4) ; done which will do all but 1 file Then we can just use the usual ./configure && make && make check I cant see any reason why later versions won't work, but as they make a lot changes per week , I think we should stick to the stable ones. If someone would like to confirm that this works on their machines Thanks Jason On Feb 10, 11:42 pm, Jason <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > MinGW64 installs seem to be problematic , and so far MPIR only works on my > install and even then I had to rename some MinGW64 binarys etc , however the > MinGW64 seem to of released a version-1.0 , so I will delete my current > install and install exactly what they say on their page , and target that. > > http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/ > > Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en.
