Re: [Gcl-devel] help fixing edit_double, failure to print 1d-6 for gcl-2.6.8

[Donald Winiecki]

Camm asks: <snip> First, I'd like to know if binaries built under some
lowest common
denominator windows will run on all others.  Windows people don't appear
to build software frequently, as just one of these issues would grind
Linux development to a complete halt.  Is it then fruitful to forget
about chasing down the buildtime idiosyncrasies in all windows versions
and focus for now on one build platform which will run on all others?

_don: We know 2.6.9 won't build or run on Win7, but will on WinXP.

I have successfully built both 2.6.8 and 2.6.10pre (as of yesterday)
on both WinXP and Win7 using Mike Thomas' setup of MinGW and GCC
3.3.1.

I don't have a reason to expect that a build of 2.6.8 or 2.6.10pre
won't move from one platform to another but I will check this tomorrow
(10 Oct 2013).

This will keep things moving while I learn more about MinGW and Cygwin.

_don



On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Camm Maguire <address@hidden> wrote:
> David Billinghurst <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> That works.  Thanks.
>>
>> Happy to try and answer any mingw questions, but I am not an expert.
>> In fact, I have been spectacularly unsuccessful in hacking gcl on
>> windows -
>> all I have managed to do is keep gcl-2.6.8pre - and now 2.6.8 -
>> running with gcc-3.3.1 on Windows XP.
>>
>
> Greetings!  I'm certainly no expert, but from my experience with mingw
> on a real windows machine, there definitely appears to be instabilities
> in the toolchain.  Utilities fail with 'permission denied', mysterious
> segfaults building gmp are not reproducible, etc.  It almost appears as
> if the entire mingw toolchain suffered from what gcl did until we moved
> all its memory up above a certain address range.
>
> First, I'd like to know if binaries built under some lowest common
> denominator windows will run on all others.  Windows people don't appear
> to build software frequently, as just one of these issues would grind
> Linux development to a complete halt.  Is it then fruitful to forget
> about chasing down the buildtime idiosyncrasies in all windows versions
> and focus for now on one build platform which will run on all others?
>
> Take care,
> --
> Camm Maguire                                        address@hidden
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