The Fedora mingw-w64 cross-compiler stack has arrived!

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:35:21PM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> > Good job Erik and Richard! I will be testing this out ASAP with my
> > $DAYJOB apps and Win 7 64-bit.
> 
> My apps require GnuTLS, which I had to rebuild myself. I encountered a 
> few minor issues.
> 
> The first was that the winsock2.h and winsock.h both define struct 
> fd_set, but do not protect it like the 32-bit MinGW includes do. This 
> leads to "multiple definition" errors as libgcrypt and GnuTLS sometimes 
> include "windows.h" instead of "winsock2.h" and "windows.h" calls 
> "winsock.h". I found the cases where "windows.h" is used it isn't even 
> required and I have removed them in my RPMs.
> 
> There are also a few warnings about pointer size and (s)printf 
> formatting (long vs long long), which is to be expected. I'll be working 
> on these as libgcrypt is unstable at the moment.

These sorts of issues need to go upstream to the respective projects.
Fedora MinGW is just packaging stuff.

Rich.

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