Re: Thinking toward mingw64 and mingw-get

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:44 AM, waterlan wrote:
> Earnie Boyd schreef op 2013-02-27 01:08:
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't understand what you are thinking about. Wherefore do you want
>>> an
>>> mingw64 subsystem?
>>>
>>
>> I'm thinking about the possibilities of the MinGW project offering
>> both 32bit versions and 64bit versions of software.  So we'll offer
>> mingw32-gcc and mingw64-gcc, etc and the end user experience in using
>> mingw-get to do so.
>
>
> But if you want to offer a mingw64-gcc then I assume it should also be
> able to produce win64 programs. That is why I was thinking of mingw-w64.

Yes, that will be correct.

> Or do you only want to offer a mingw64-gcc that can only target win32?
>

That would be ridiculous.

> Ideally you want to offer mingw32-gcc and mingw64-gcc that both can
> produce 32 and 64 bit programs, just by using the -m32/-m64 switch.

I think I prefer cross compilers but perhaps allow mingw64-gcc the
ability to use -m32/-m64 regardless.

-- 
Earnie
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