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Dropping MinGW32 support in favor of MinGW-w64 #46

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mosra opened this issue Apr 7, 2014 · 1 comment
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Dropping MinGW32 support in favor of MinGW-w64 #46

mosra opened this issue Apr 7, 2014 · 1 comment
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mosra commented Apr 7, 2014

MinGW32 has several issues and it seems that the developers don't care about the users anymore, for example:

  • completely missing std::to_string() functions, which I need to work around using slow std::stringstream. The related bug was closed as "out of date" and no fix is in sight.
  • complete lack of testing -- GCC 4.8.1 being totally unusable (the executables crashed on execution), while GCC 4.7 includes needed to be patched to make them work with C++11. I even had to create a troubleshooting page on Corrade's wiki to address these issues. Not sure whether this got fixed already.
  • completely broken std::u32string on GCC 4.7 (memory corruption on destruction), so I had to workaround it everywhere by using std::vector<char32_t> instead. Again, not sure whether this works now.
  • complete lack of 64-bit support, which is shameful.

As ArchLinux maintainers removed all MinGW32 packages and replaced them with MinGW-w64 equivalents, I think it would be good to do the same, clean up all these ugly MinGW32-specific workarounds and support just MinGW-w64.

Is there anyone using MinGW32 who can't switch to MinGW-w64? These cases come to my mind:

  • old or obscure Linux distributions not having MinGW-w64 in repositories (probably not)
  • Windows toolchains which come with MinGW32 bundled but without ability to replace it with anything else (in Qt SDK it is possible to replace it, as far as I know)
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mosra commented Sep 8, 2015

Apparently all mentioned issues are fixed with MinGW-w64 GCC 5.1, removed the workarounds in corrade, magnum and magnum-plugins.

Closing as done.

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@mosra mosra added this to the 2018.02 milestone Feb 15, 2018
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