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From: Romain Beauxis <romain.beauxis@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] About the "mingw" port of OCaml

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