From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 29 19:31:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CA27106566C; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:31:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from cauchy.math.missouri.edu (cauchy.math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3945B8FC0A; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:31:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from laptop3.gateway.2wire.net (cauchy.math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.213]) by cauchy.math.missouri.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2TJVkfl059484; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:31:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Message-ID: <49CFCCA2.1030408@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:31:46 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090305 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Coleman Kane References: <1761162510.20070729004710@serebryakov.spb.ru> <46ACDB4B.6090707@FreeBSD.org> <46CB159F.4030404@FreeBSD.org> <49CED0E0.90709@math.missouri.edu> <1238348186.2663.6.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1238348186.2663.6.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Lev Serebryakov Subject: Re: REQUEST FOR TESTERS: `devel/mingw32-gcc' X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:31:48 -0000 Coleman Kane wrote: > On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 20:37 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >> Coleman Kane wrote: >> >>> I haven't seen any activity on the above email, and I am curious if: >>> 1) It was missed (and this really does affect people) >>> 2) Nobody cross-compiles using the mingw32-* ports (it is really very >>> handy!) >>> 3) Nobody really cares that mingw32-gcc will move from 3.4.5 --> 4.2.0 >>> >>> Please, if this affects you test out the above port tarball! Otherwise, >>> this will end up going in and not take into account any problems that >>> might arise in your environment. >>> >>> -- >>> Coleman Kane >> >> I just saw that this message is about two years old, and that the commit >> must have been made years ago. >> >> Sorry for the noise. > > Thanks. It was handled off-line and we did the upgrade. > Still, the mingw32 port is really rather impressive. When I first thought of cross compiling for Windows, I started by reading the online documentation at the mingw32 web sites. It was quite unreadable, giving one no place to start. I still wouldn't know how to cross compile for Windows under Linux. By contrast, the mingw32 ports in FreeBSD simply worked out of the box, and it was a tremendous relief to see how effective and simple it was. Stephen