Hi everybody,
Three days ago we've received a message from Red Hat Legal that it is okay to use the MinGW-W64 toolchain in Fedora (from their legal point of view). As a result of this wonderful news we (Kalev and I) have worked very hard to get the MinGW-W64 toolchain introduced in Fedora. After all, we're still trying to get everything available in Fedora 17.
Today has been a great day. Both the mingw-crt and mingw-headers packages were approved in the package review proces! We're currently waiting for the git repos to be created. After that the fun can start.
In the mail I sent three days ago I mentioned the plan to have all 5 toolchain packages (filesystem, binutils, gcc, headers and crt) approved before kicking of the mass rebuild. However, we started to diverge a bit from this plan. The main priority now is to get the mass rebuild done for Fedora 17. As there currently are no mingw packages in Fedora which require win64 support in order to build we decided to delay the gcc and binutils reviews. So initially there will only be support for win32 binaries using the mingw-w64 toolchain.
When the mingw-w64 toolchain for the i686-w64-mingw32 target is in place (which will likely be tomorrow) we can start performing a mass rebuild of all mingw packages in Fedora 17 against the new toolchain.
Once the mass rebuild is completed we can continue with the reviews of the mingw-binutils and mingw-gcc packages and start with adding win64 support.
Kind regards,
Erik van Pienbroek