On 2007-01-08 08:39+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: >> [...] For example, gcc-4.1.0 was >> released almost a year ago so I don't understand why the MinGW developers >> are not releasing an official version of gcc-4.x yet. Perhaps it will be >> coming soon? > > Either there are major problems or the MinGW project is dying. Which would be > a pity. MinGW gcc 3.4.5 is actually not a bad compiler at all, quite fast and > already has precompiled header support. They seem to try to get everything > working (all languages) - since djgpp is already at version 4.1 with it's > c/c++ compilers. >
I have done some searching on the mingw-users list, and my above remarks were probably too severe. One of the MinGW developers is actively working on gcc-4.x, but for some reason it is taking him rather long to get out even a development release. The MinGW developer may well be a perfectionist. Whatever the reason for the delay in the official MinGW release of gcc-4.x, the MinGW project is extraordinarily successful and there is no fear that they are dying. Their mailing list has huge traffic, and they are usally in the top 25 of the most actively downloaded projects on SourceForge. Everybody loves a free (in both senses) compiler! > Anyway, I'll look into gfortran when time permits. Good. gfortran is good enough for our PLplot needs on Linux so that MinGW binary put together by the GNU gfortran project is certainly worth trying. According to http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinariesWindows the installer seems to give you quite a bit of flexibility about how/where you install gfortran. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
