g++ versions

[David Gressett]

Robert Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Tim Prince <TimothyPrince@sbcglobal.net> 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