Robert Jones wrote:
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
You should also read the MinGW mailing list; there has been much recent
discussion about the slow progress of gcc in MinGW and the reasons for
that slow pace..
To make a long story short, Windows is a difficult system on which to
get gcc working properly. It wasn't intentionally designed to be
difficult, but unintentional design is quite adequate for producing
major difficulties. :) Exception handling is a major problem which is
still not completely solved in the currently-available MinGW V4
