aren’t you able to install an older version of gcc in your newer version of mingw? I do not have time right now to update the build into a new compiler, sorry (also, that is not always trivial/desired, he)
Esteban > On 30 Apr 2015, at 08:38, Nicolai Hess <[email protected]> wrote: > > I managed to trash my mingw build environment > -> uninstalled /removed mingw/mingsys > -> reinstall from current mingw-installer > -> bad idea > > I can build a pharo windows vm but it immediately crashes on startup. I > suspect > some changes between gcc 4.6 (old environment) gcc 4.8 (new environment). > (I think there are some changes related to file globbing (I managed to get > the vm somehow working to not crash on startup but on shutdown instead - with > _CRT_glob = 0. And gcc-4.8 uses dfferent (dwarf vs. sjlj ) exception > handling, don't know if this is > related). > > I tried to find a ming-installer for the old version but could not find > anything and > I tried to manually setup a ming installation from the old packages (dozen of > packages > for mingw / core-utils / bintutils /msys from different places (no fun)). > > 1) did anyone get a windows vm from mingws current version (with gcc 4.8) > working? > > 2) can someone package/zip and upload an old mingw installation (maybe that > one that > is used on the build server? > > > regards > nicolai
