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Re: How to install gcc on windows.


At 07:16 PM 5/14/2005, corey taylor wrote:
Is there a Mingw 4.0 port yet?

corey

No, and it may be a while before there is one. The MinGW version of gcc patches the original GNU version in many places; the most recent MinGW version is 3.4.2; Only a few of these patches have made it into GNU gcc 4.0.0, and some will have to be done differently or not at all due to changes between 3.4 and 4. The GNU gcc web site contains one report of a successful build of unpatched gcc 4.0.0 in a MinGW environment; the person reporting built only c and c++, none of the other languages,and could not do detailed testing, as he didn't have MinGW ports of the necessary software tools needed to do the testing.


I have found that Ada will not build, even with the 3.4.2 patches applied to the Ada part of the gcc source code. I haven't tried any of the other languages yet.

It's very unlikely that you will get MinGW gcc 4.0.x until all of the languages work ok. The MinGW environment is not a "must-have" item for the gcc development team, so it gets left to the Cygwin and MingW folks to make it work on Windows. They don't have infinite free time to work on compiler releases. There is no guarantee that the x in MinGW 4.0.x will be 0. I will be surprised if it is less than 2.



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