Re: MSYS package for Strawberry Perl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chm" <[email protected]>
To: "kmx" <[email protected]>; "Sisyphus" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 3:52 AM
Subject: MSYS package for Strawberry Perl


> Hi Rob and kmx-
>
> I finally got around to setting up an MSYS
> install for my windows/SPP work and it was
> really nice to finally be able to build a
> bunch of those autoconf libraries for SPP
> and PDL.
>
> The catch was that the MSYS was builts with
> on version of the MinGW toolchain from the
> one in Strawberry Perl and SPP.  I think there
> would be a great simplification of configuration
> and reduction in possible version skew if we
> could have an MSYS built from/with the MinGW
> toolchain of SP.

Chris, my experience has always been that it doesn't matter what toolchain 
built my MSYS.

The MSYS that I currently use was provided with my download of mingw.org's 
gcc-4.5.2 compiler.
Within that shell I've used a variety of mingw compilers to build numerous 
libraries - both 32-bit and 64-bit (and including the current Strawberry 
compilers). And that has not thrown up any problems.
Of course, I do strike problems from time to time,  but I haven't struck any 
problems related to the tool chain that built MSYS.

Is there a specific example that you can relate ?

Cheers,
Rob