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Danny Smith left MinGW project

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stahta01:

--- Quote from: wwolf on September 04, 2007, 03:17:03 pm ---Now you've made me to seriously consider to contribute there. However I have not worked on GCC ever before, so... :(  I would like to learn compiler technology, but I am not sure if I can do it fast enough to actually benefit the community...

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Try to build the minGW GCC from source code and if you can then think about starting as a developer.
Note, I failed building minGW GCC from source code twice now, I am waiting till I have free time to try again.

Tim S

kelo81:
I don't know if I'm wrong, but I thought that GCC 4.3 was adding windows as a supported platform... (or at least as an experimental one)

stahta01:

--- Quote from: kelo81 on September 04, 2007, 08:44:59 pm ---I don't know if I'm wrong, but I thought that GCC 4.3 was adding windows as a supported platform... (or at least as an experimental one)

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It is adding MinGW as an secondary ?target/platform? just like Cygwin is/was.

Tim S

Edit: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.3/criteria.html


--- Quote ---Secondary Platform List

The secondary platforms are:

    * hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11
    * powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0
    * powerpc-apple-darwin
    * i686-pc-cygwin
    * i686-mingw32
    * ia64-unknown-linux-gnu
    * s390-linux-gnu

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darthdespotism:
Yes I've read this some time ago but I didn't find anything on gnu.org about it yet.

wwolf:

--- Quote from: stahta01 on September 04, 2007, 05:42:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: wwolf on September 04, 2007, 03:17:03 pm ---Now you've made me to seriously consider to contribute there. However I have not worked on GCC ever before, so... :(  I would like to learn compiler technology, but I am not sure if I can do it fast enough to actually benefit the community...

--- End quote ---

Try to build the minGW GCC from source code and if you can then think about starting as a developer.
Note, I failed building minGW GCC from source code twice now, I am waiting till I have free time to try again.

Tim S

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I think I am going to ask the gcc guys on the Kona C++ standardization meeting. I guess they can tell me if it is hopeless to get up to speed or not.

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