Win64 packages

Farkas Levente lfarkas at lfarkas.org
Thu Feb 12 14:08:58 UTC 2009


Farkas Levente wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> Note that the directory layout for mingw64 is somewhat different from
>> mingw32.  I arrived at what I think is the right structure after
>> extensive discussions and help from members of the mingw-w64 project.
>>
>>   /usr/x86_64-pc-mingw32/sys-root/      (prefix & sysroot)
>>     share
>>     x86_64-pc-mingw32
>>     mingw -> x86_64-pc-mingw32
>>
>>   /usr/x86_64-pc-mingw32/sys-root/x86_64-pc-mingw32     (exec_prefix)
>>     bin                                                 (bindir)
>>     include                                             (includedir)
>>     include64 -> include
>>     lib                                                 (libdir)
> 
> can you explain it a bit?
> why mingw32 and not mingw64?
> 
> why /usr/x86_64-pc-mingw32/sys-root/x86_64-pc-mingw32 and not
> /usr/x86_64-pc-mingw32/sys-root/?
> 
> anyway the same question apply to mingw32 why
> /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/ and why not
> /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/?

or why not /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/mingw/ ?

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