PRE-ANN: mingw32 toolchain packages to be discontinued

Ralf Corsepius ralf.corsepius at rtems.org
Thu Aug 2 03:07:17 UTC 2012


On 08/01/2012 08:41 AM, Chris Johns wrote:
> On 1/08/12 2:06 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> A headsup to all mingw32 toolchain package users.
>>
>> The packages below ftp://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/mingw32/
>> will be discontined at a yet undetermined point in time within the next
>> couple of months [1].
>>
>> They are supposed to be replaced by the packages below
>> ftp://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/mingw64/*/i686 (32bit windows)
>> or
>> ftp://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/mingw64/*/x86_64 (64bit windows)
>>
>> As I am not using Windows for RTEMS and do not have access to 64bit
>> windows, and because nobody has reported any testing results for these
>> toolchains, I'd strongly encourage all Windows users to switch to the
>> mingw64 toolchains ASAP.
>
> Which upstream project is this based on ? mingw-w64.sourceforge.net ?

Yes, c.f.
http://www.rtems.org/pipermail/rtems-devel/2012-April/000873.html
and
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Mingw-w64_cross_compiler

Ralf





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