Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Mingw64

[Volker Grabsch]

Martin Gerhardy <address@hidden> schrieb:
> are there any plans to support mingw64, too?

There is a plan to switch to MinGW-w64 in the future. MinGW-w64
is a clone of MinGW that provides 32-bit as well as 64-bit
support: http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/

That way, switching to 64-bit would be just a question of switching
the TARGET in our main Makefile. Or, even better, we could cross
build the 32-bit and 64-bit variants at once.

(The tools would have different prefixes and the libraries would
 be installed into different subdirectories, which is BTW already
 the case, so there shouldn't be any conflicts.)

However, nobody got MinGW-w64 working yet. I think Tony was working
on that some time ago. Any contribution into that direction is
welcome.

The first step should be a switch to MinGW-w64, but still producing
32-bit binaries.

Only if that works, is well-tested and released, we can start the
second step. That is, we would integrate 64-bit support.

We would the check which packages are suitable for that. I guess
that some packages would even need separate build rules to cross-
compile for a 64-bit platform.


Greets,
Volker

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