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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 The related bug was closed as "out of date" and no fix is in sight.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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MinGW32 has several issues and it seems that the developers don't care about the users anymore, for example:
std::to_string()
functions, which I need to work around using slowstd::stringstream
. The related bug was closed as "out of date" and no fix is in sight.std::u32string
on GCC 4.7 (memory corruption on destruction), so I had to workaround it everywhere by usingstd::vector<char32_t>
instead. Again, not sure whether this works now.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:
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: