Re: [XBoard-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Fix segfault with 'Game List Tags' dialogue

[Joshua Pettus]

> On Mar 21, 2015, at 3:09 PM, H.G. Muller <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Thomas Adam schreef op 3/21/2015 om 2:06 PM:
>> The winboard/makefile.gcc file suggests that it can be cross-compiled, yet
>> it's clearly not received any love for sometime, since there's calls to
>> -mno-cygwin which have been deprecated options to GCC---and in more recent
>> versions have been completely removed (hence 'make -f makefile.gcc' now
>> errors out).
> The WinBoard binary that I distribute is compiled by gcc 3.4.4 for that 
> reason.
> Newer versions indeed did not seem to work, and I never could figure out how 
> to
> produce a native Windows binary with those. So I stuck to 3.4.4, which does 
> the job fine

My understanding, the reason -mno-cygwin was removed because you can install the
mingw gcc compilers instead, which basically do the same thing.  Only when I 
tried it a couple days ago, it got hung up on wbres.o

something about not recognizing the file type, which is strange…

Josh