Re: :tool mingw

Richard Boulton wrote:

> The mingw tool is currently in fairly bad shape - it assumes fixed paths 
> to mingw, doesn't support building libs or dlls, and as a result is 
> quite useless on my system (using Debian's mingw as a cross compiler).
> 
> I've pretty much rewritten tools/mingw.py, and attach my modified 
> version (the diff is basically the whole file).

Good to see you made this!

> I hope this will still work on windows as a native compiler - I can't 
> see any reason that it shouldn't.

I would appreciate feedback from people who use MingW on MS-Windows.

> Let me know if there's any significant problems with it, and I'll be 
> happy to fix them.  I need this functionality in a released version of 
> aap before I can get move a project I'm working on over to using aap, so 
> i'm keen for it to go in. :)

I'll await comments for a few days.  If it looks OK then I'll include
it.

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