On 9/25/2019 8:43 AM, Tamar Christina wrote:
You can also just build using the same pkgbuilds that mingw-w64 use
https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-gcc for GCC 9 and https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-gcc-git for trunk builds.
However if you're just after getting binaries and not really developing GCC you can just get the latest builds from the pacman repo of mingw-w64 http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/ You need to get all the different components. For a working native C & C++ toolchain you'll need at least the following packages crt-git, winpthreads-git, headers-git, libwinpthread-git, zlib, isl, mpfr, gmp, binutils, libidn2-2, gcc, mpc, gcc-libs.
Extracting them together in the same destination will install them in the right places. If you don't mind using msys2 then you can just do `pacman -Sy gcc` to get the latest one. If you get an older version than 9.2 then you need to update your msys2 install before that and then you'll get the latest.
OK, but all of that seems much work and many headaches compared to using
MSYS2, the 'build' script and instructions at
https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds/tree/develop, which allows the
end-user to build any version of mingw-w64/gcc from 4.6.4 through 9.2.0
with whatever configuration the user likes. It is not always that an end
user needs to get only the very latest implementation of mingw-w64/gcc,
and I certainly don't want to worry about having a whole bunch of pacman
packages just so I can have mingw-w64/gcc whatever for myself.
Nonetheless each to their own.
Once I was able to build mingw-w64/gcc versions using MSYS and the
'build' script on the web page above I was satisfied. Of course the
official mingw-w64-install.exe at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/latest/download does
install a large number of mingw-w64/gcc releases but this has been
stopped for new releases so the script I mention is definitely the way
to go for me.
BTW top-posting in newsgroups is considered bad etiquette.
Regards,
Tamar
-----Original Message-----
From: gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx <gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Edward Diener
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 04:56
To: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: about gcc native on Microsoft Windows
On 9/24/2019 11:18 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 16:04, Arie anony wrote:
I have tried many options to get latest gcc for Windows 10 no via
MinGW, CpgWin and other and not found how do it exactly.
I want to build native gcc for Windows, can also via Linux or WSL and
then move to run on Windows.
Is GCC build from source support also build for Windows or only POSIX
compliment operating systems as UNIX, Unix-like and linux?
I have asked also here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58068543/how-to-build-or-get-a-or
iginal-latest-version-of-gcc-for-windows
You'll need to build it the same way that MinGW and mingw-w64 do it,
but using the latest gcc instead of the gcc 8.x package they use.
You can't just build GCC on Windows, it's only possible using either
mingw or cygwin.
The original poster can build for mingw-w64 most any released version of gcc,
including currently the gcc 9 branch and gcc-9.1 and gcc-9.2, using the scripts
provided in the 'develop' branch at https://github.com/niXman/mingw-
builds/tree/develop under MSYS2 on Windows. I have done so for mingw-
w64/gcc-9.1 and mingw-w64/gcc-9.2, among others, successfully. I do not
know who niXman is, but he is supportive.
