Win64 packages
Farkas Levente
lfarkas at lfarkas.org
Fri Feb 13 23:21:17 UTC 2009
Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:08:58PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
>> 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/ ?
>
> This isn't a matter of guesswork or how we'd like it to be. Upstream
> have set up their binutils, compiler, headers etc to work with a
> specific directory structure.
>
> We have to replicate that structure.
>
> Otherwise it doesn't work.
are you sure?
i'll test it next week. what's the best and easiest way to test the
whole system?
--
Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
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