[Mingw-cross-env-list] Questions 08/22

[Thomas Dineen]

Gentle People:

1) For those of you out there who have recently completed a new build
of the whole (Or most of) the M Cross Environment: What OS did you
build it on, including version? Were you able to build all of the packages?

     Did you use a special environment set up (Beyond the requirements in the directions)?

     I ask this question because I have had difficulity in the past building
the M Cross Environment on Fedora and RedHat (CentOs) and I am now interested
in a 64 bit upgrade.

      So is there a favored OS and version?

2) 64 Bit Status and nomenclature? It appears the 64 bit is now fully supported?

MinGW-w64	i686-w64-mingw32	99% (339/341)	62% (211/341)
	x86_64-w64-mingw32	91% (311/341)	61% (209/341)

Nomenclature: i686 and X86_64 are intel nomenclatures for the instruction set.

What dose the -w64 mean and what dose the trailing 32 mean?

Is this fully 64 bit or not?

Do I need a command line switch in the ./Configure for a 64 bit build?

Thomas Dineen