Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Merging MXE Octave - first steps (was What gets compiled into DLL by libtool (licencing issues))

[John W. Eaton]

On 02/26/2014 01:01 AM, Tony Theodore wrote:
> On 26 Feb 2014, at 04:57, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Also, mxe-octave is now using mingw-w64 for both 32- and 64-bit
> > systems so we aren't downloading binary bits for the mingw runtime
> > libraries.  Are you also headed in that direction?
>
> No, we plan to support mingw.org for the foreseeable future, we’ll have the new 
> v4 soon and may keep the v3 around if people need it. I hear anecdotes that 
> some projects are no longer supporting mingw.org and if that turns out to be 
> true, then we can selectively disable the target. If you only set the *-w64-* 
> targets, it shouldn’t download the mingw.org packages so this shouldn’t have 
> any impact on people using a single toolchain.

I'm not sure I understand.  Looking at gcc.mk in MXE, it appears that 
the only 32-bit option is mingw.org and downloading mingwrt libraries in 
binary form.  Is that correct?  If so, would you consider an option that 
allows building the 32-bit compiler from the mingw-w64 project sources? 
 Or is that already possible by using the right target for Make?

jwe