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?

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