Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#10633 new Bugs
mingw project was migrated to mingw-w64 6 mos to a year ago
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Daniel James | |
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| Milestone: | To Be Determined | Component: | Documentation |
| Version: | Boost 1.56.0 | Severity: | Problem |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_56_0.html under compilers tested, windows you have listed mingw.
mingw is no longer maintained and has been migrated to mingw-w64.
you might be confusing mingw-w64 with mingw which are different projects. it gives folks the wrong idea as to which compiler to use.
the current state of mingw-w64 is that a number of cross compilers (auto builds, mostly for linux and darwin) are generated by the build system. the personal donsheng daily builds seem stable:
sf.net mingw-w64 prohject, toolchains targeting win32 and win64, personal builds, dongsheng daily
MSYS can be used for a build environment but it must be configured. I have a configuration for that, but it needs to be submitted to the project yet when it gets completed.
interestingly enough, this bug tracking system rejects my posting of the compiler URLs as spam and says I should have completed the captcha, but no captcha was given. I am using firefox on win7x64.
at best, "mingw" might be a misnomer.
