Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Building x86_64 binaries for Windows

[Schrober]

On Tuesday 01 January 2013 05:22:45 Tony Theodore wrote:
> My experimental branch has been dormant for a long time, but building the
> targets serially [2] has overcome my main objection - simplicity [3]. I
> merged the current mxe/master recently, and it works well for packages that
> are cross-compile aware (e.g. qt). Current i686-pc-mingw32 builds are the
> same as mxe/master.
> > Was it already possible to build a 64 bit toolchain and now it is only
> > possible to build all toolchains at once?
> In the experimental branch, yes and no. You define the targets by `make
> MXE_TARGETS=…` or by configuration of the local settings.mk
> > When yes, what must I do to compile a 64 bit toolchain from the current
> > master/stable branch?
> There isn't a way from current master/stable (without a lot of work). Clone
> the experimental brach [4] and play around with it. The toolchain is
> stable, but we need feedback on the infrastructure and any help with 64-bit
> package patches is welcome.

I've just tested it with x86_64-static-mingw32 and it works wonderful. I hope 
it gets merged in the near future so everyone can enjoy it. Thank you very 
much for your work
-- 
Franz Schrober