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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.