Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Building x86_64 binaries for Windows

[William]

Tony,
I wish you a happy new year !

On 01/05/2013 09:41 AM, Tony Theodore wrote:
> On 03/01/2013, at 10:16 AM, William <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Also, I know this is old debate, why not switch to mingw-w64 ?
> Hi William,
>
> There are:
>
> $ grep -l 'BUILD.*w64-mingw32 =$' src/*.mk | wc -l
>        48
>
> excluded mingw-w64 packages, we couldn't switch entirely over until those are 
> all building flawlessly.
I think you will never reach a state were all packages build flawlessly 
for mingw-w64 (because you are on your own for this fork I guess). Once 
a reasonnable number of packages is operationnal, you should definitly 
switch.

I think that having mingw-w64 by default in mxe master branch would :
- encourage people to make it work
- increase the number of people interested in mxe (and potential 
contributors)

Also, it is still possible to propose a method to revert to non default 
mingw.org build ?

>   Most of the ocaml-* packages won't build for me
ocaml-packages do not build for you ? (what is the problem ?)
or they do not build without ocaml-native ? (which is "normal", as some 
packages refere to native tools with full path in mxe/usr directory)
or they do not build on mingw-w64 ?(which is strange, I remember testing 
it, not fully, with mingw-w64)
> (ocaml-native does, but I've excluded it since it takes a long time to build 
> and it's dependents need some work). Can you take a look at updating these 
> (there's a new version 4.00.1) and getting them to work with mingw-w64? Use 
> either of the experimental branches [1][2], any package build rules that change 
> will be equally applicable no matter how we proceed with the multi-target 
> approach.
if I make changes (like 4.00.1 upgrades), or update build instructions, 
shouldn't I do them in the mxe master branch?
If I make them in your fork, it would not be in the master mxe...

> Another thing that would greatly help any new targets being supported is test 
> programs - a passing build doesn't mean that packages are actually working 
> correctly.
there are test programs for ocaml packages
> Thanks,
>
> Tony
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/tonytheodore/mxe/tree/multi-target
> [2] https://github.com/tonytheodore/mxe/tree/multi-rebase

Regards