Re: Thinking toward mingw64 and mingw-get

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> Op 26-2-2013 18:25, Earnie Boyd schreef:
>> Currently the package subsystem defaults to mingw32.  Is this default
>> controlled by the profile.xml file?  Could mingw-get consider the
>> default to be mingw64 based on the value of PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE?
>> Value of AMD64 defaults to mingw64
>> Value of x86 defaults to mingw32
>>
>> Note this value will also depend on if mingw-get is a 64bit native
>> binary versus a 32bit one.  So if someone downloads the 32bit
>> mingw-get they will default to mingw32 while the 64bit native binary
>> will default to mingw64.  The value of PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE will
>> change if executing in SysWOW64 emulation mode to x86 and remain at
>> AMD64 if running in native mode.
>
> Are you also thinking of an msys64? Then we have to wait until Cygwin
> has moved to 64 bit, which will be the end of this year I believe.
>

No, not really since this is a discussion of our default for mingw-get
which currently is mingw32.

> As far as I understand the mingw-w64 project only delivers the gcc
> toolchain. So there is not much to 'mingw-get' for mingw-w64, until a
> package collection of tools and libraries has been set up.
>

This discussion has nothing to do with mingw-w64 project.  We are our
own entity and on this list only discuss MinGW related topics.

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