Re: MSYS package for Strawberry Perl

On 9/5/2012 4:59 PM, Mark Dootson wrote:
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> As Rob says, I'm fairly sure it doesn't matter.
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> But if it does, an MSYS environment that is a copy of the environment
> used to build the compiler used in Strawberry (same versions of
> everything) is available at
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> https://sourceforge.net/projects/perlmingw/files/MSYS%20Environment%20for%20End%20Users/

Thanks, Mark.

I think this is was I was looking for.  I'm trying to get
a developers build of PDL for SP as automatic as I can.
Adding MSYS to support the build of autoconf packages might
take things the rest of the way home for PDL+SP on win32.

--Chris

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> On 05/09/2012 20:22, Sisyphus wrote:
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>> ----- 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
>>
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