Robert Jones wrote: > I'm new to this list, so apologies if all this is done-and-dusted, but I'm > struggling to understand what the latest available version of gcc/g++ is > for Cygwin or MinGW. > > The version of gcc that comes with Gygwin or MinGW download is 3.4.2 > or 3.4.4, which is pretty old. I'm assuming these are latest available binaries > for these platforms? > > Turning to source distributions the latest info for Cygwin suggests a build > attempt has been made for 4.3.1, but there are lots of failures. I can't > see anything for the MinGW platform. > > Is this right? Is there really no recent version of gcc that compiles under > any windows platform? > > Thanks, Rob. Turning to the cygwin install menu and mailing list archives would help to answer the question. As I recall, yesterday they promised a gcc-4.4 build including OpenMP for the first time, to come out on the cygwin install menu within a week. It remains to be seen how buggy it may be. There are at least 3 popular sources for mingw builds; one which includes support libraries and Fortran, and soon will include C++, is the gfortran wiki. I don't understand your last question. Have you tried to build gcc on Windows yourself, or read any posted comments on it? I'm about to go to my office and check the success of my gcc-testsuite run, which I will post if at all meaningful. Yes, many of the people who support gcc for Windows do it by cross builds. Are you objecting to that? After all, Windows is intentionally designed to require work-arounds not common to any other OS. I should have taken the hint from Tbird and not dredged this out of the spam folder.
