From: Romain Beauxis <romain.beauxis@gmail.com>
To: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] About the "mingw" port of OCaml
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:10:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABWZ6OTgBMAedeEER6kmKFC9AT9MPbKLFW=iC_1kr5UVB6BD=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE5EF49.80108@frisch.fr>
Hi all,
2011/12/12 Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>:
> The mingw port of OCaml was not in a good shape, because of changes in
> Cygwin:
>
> - We used to rely on the normal Cygwin gcc compiler, using the
> -mno-cygwin flag. This is no longer available for recent versions
> of gcc shipped in Cygwin. There is still a gcc-3.exe, but it
> is not clear whether it will be supported in the future.
>
> - There are now two modern versions of gcc, available in cygwin,
> which supports compiling in "mingw" mode (32-bit mode):
>
> * A packaged version of the compiler from the MinGW.org project:
> i686-pc-mingw32-gcc.exe
>
> * A packaged version of the compiler from the mingw-w64 project:
> i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
>
>
> Future versions of the OCaml mingw port should be based on one of these two
> versions. I'd be interested to hear if anyone in the community has any
> advice on which one to choose. Feel free to comment on this list, or on the
> bug tracker:
>
> http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5179
>
> Currently, flexdll (version 0.27) and OCaml (SVN trunk version) have been
> adapted to work with the mingw-w64 version (32-bit only, for now), but if
> there are arguments in favor of the other one, it should not be difficult to
> switch (supporting both is not technically difficult, but it might create
> useless confusion).
For what it's worth, the OCaml cross-compiler in debian
(http://packages.debian.org/mingw-ocaml) has been switched to
i686-w64-.. after a request from the guys maintaining mingw in debian
(see: http://bugs.debian.org/624533).
Romain
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-19 3:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-12 12:10 Alain Frisch
2011-12-12 12:50 ` Matthieu Dubuget
2011-12-13 13:34 ` Edgar Friendly
2011-12-13 13:58 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-15 19:20 ` ygrek
[not found] ` <CAL-jcAkt7grC0z7_dVj7zD846zhHdPjWpHZZeCw_m1iEoBf4Fw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-12-15 20:52 ` Edgar Friendly
2011-12-17 21:31 ` ygrek
2011-12-19 3:10 ` Romain Beauxis [this message]
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