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


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