[Bug 630522] *.dll name mismatch
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--- Comment #5 from Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> 2010-09-06 10:18:23 EDT
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(In reply to comment #4)
(In reply to comment #3)
> The "Fedora MinGW" project is a little misnamed. We're really just a
Fedora
> Windows gcc cross-compiler and we use a bit of runtime from mingw.org
> (although later on we intend to replace as much as possible with code from
> the separate mingw-w64 project). The fact that mingw.org also builds
> some libraries isn't really anything to do with this project.
Hmm, to me this is a pretty bewildering excuse, because a cross toolchain which
doesn't match the native host's libraries it targets, is widely free of sense
and useless.
Not quite sure what you mean by this. _I_ meant that we target
Microsoft Windows which has some DLLs that we support (eg.
user32.dll). zlib is not AFAIK a part of Microsoft Windows: I checked
and it is not included in Windows 7. Microsoft ship a library
called lz32.dll which is their native compression library (it could
be based on the zlib code, I'm not sure).
> You really won't find that mingw.org libraries they happen
to build are
> compatible with our cross-compiled libraries (although the most acute
> incompatibilities are with C++ programs). Ship our zlib1.dll to be
> on the safe side.
Well, then you likely may want to launch a native mingw32 distro, matching your
ming32 packages, such that your ming32 toolchain finally has a target platform
or help mingw32.org?
That's never been a part of any plan that I'm aware of. This project
has always been about cross-compiling binaries so that they can run
on Microsoft Windows.
However, I'd seriously recommend you fix your toolchain to match
with that
toolchain packages windoze users are really using (mingw.org).
I regret, but in it's present shape your cross-toolchain is more a waste of
diskspace but real support for cross-building to Windows.
We don't expect that users have installed mingw.org. We
want to ship binaries which can run completely independently
of this, just on plain MS Windows. This has always been the
goal of the project.
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