On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 12:46, David Brown wrote: > > On 10/12/18 06:20, Wojciech Balawender wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm writing my master's thesis and I need older versions MinGW to my > > research - as many binary versions as possible (since GCC 2.95) for > > Microsoft Windows. I will test the impact of new language constructs on the > > speed of compiling the source code and size of source code... and many, > > many other things will be tested. Where can download all versions? ;-) > > > > Thanks for the help > > Regards, > > > > I would say that if you want to test the different versions of the > compiler itself, you do /not/ want binaries. A key point is that older > versions of gcc binaries will be compiled using older versions of gcc - > and this will cause artificial changes to the compile speed. You would > be better getting the source code tarballs for different gcc releases, > and compile them all using the same version of gcc, with the same basic > optimisation settings. > > And you should do yourself a favour and switch to Linux for this. It > will be hugely easier to do, and eliminate many complications and > additional sources of variation such as the C library (which for MinGW > was MS's msvccrt DLL, but is different for modern MinGW-64). > > If you follow these two steps, then the gcc source releases are all > conveniently available for download from the gcc website. On the other hand, you won't find either mingw32 binaries or sources on the GCC website, because it's a different project. You'd have to ask mingw where to find their binaries, instead of asking GCC.
