> Begin forwarded message: > > Subject: Re: [XBoard-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Fix segfault with 'Game List Tags' > dialogue > From: Joshua Pettus <[email protected]> > Date: March 21, 2015 at 3:48:00 PM EDT > To: "H.G. Muller" <[email protected]> > > Also, it’s a real pain to install old compilers in cygwin. You basically > have to compile them yourself. They really don’t want you to do it. > > > > >> On Mar 21, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Joshua Pettus <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> On Mar 21, 2015, at 3:09 PM, H.G. Muller <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Thomas Adam schreef op 3/21/2015 om 2:06 PM: >>>> The winboard/makefile.gcc file suggests that it can be cross-compiled, yet >>>> it's clearly not received any love for sometime, since there's calls to >>>> -mno-cygwin which have been deprecated options to GCC---and in more recent >>>> versions have been completely removed (hence 'make -f makefile.gcc' now >>>> errors out). >>> The WinBoard binary that I distribute is compiled by gcc 3.4.4 for that >>> reason. >>> Newer versions indeed did not seem to work, and I never could figure out >>> how to >>> produce a native Windows binary with those. So I stuck to 3.4.4, which does >>> the job fine >> >> My understanding, the reason -mno-cygwin was removed because you can install >> the >> mingw gcc compilers instead, which basically do the same thing. Only when I >> tried it a couple days ago, it got hung up on wbres.o >> >> something about not recognizing the file type, which is strange… >> >> Josh >
