On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Tim Prince <TimothyPrince@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > Hi Tim "Dredged out of the spam folder", - gosh a promotion ;) I'm unclear what you mean by the Cygwin install menu - is that the setup program? I haven't tried to build gcc on Windows, largely because it is unclear to me exactly which version it would be useful to try to build, hence asking the original question. My aim is simply to arrive at fairly recent (ie version 4) g++ compiler for Windows, either a binary download or one I build myself, but the build reports seem to suggest that all the v4 windows build attempts have many failures. If I've got this wrong please let me know - I'd be delighted to be wrong! Thanks, Rob
