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Date:      Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:31:46 -0500
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
To:        Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: REQUEST FOR TESTERS: `devel/mingw32-gcc'
Message-ID:  <49CFCCA2.1030408@math.missouri.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1238348186.2663.6.camel@localhost>
References:  <1761162510.20070729004710@serebryakov.spb.ru>	 <46ACDB4B.6090707@FreeBSD.org> <46CB159F.4030404@FreeBSD.org>	 <49CED0E0.90709@math.missouri.edu> <1238348186.2663.6.camel@localhost>

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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



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