Upgrade MinGW Toolchain

[stephanosio]

The MinGW toolchain that is available as part of Debian 10, which is the base image for the sdk-build Docker image, is too outdated (MinGW 6.0.0 with GCC 8.3.0) to support Windows LLVM build.

Update the sdk-build Docker image to include a more up-to-date MinGW-w64 toolchain.

Notes

• It will be necessary to build the full MinGW-w64 toolchain from source since there is no adequate binary distribution available for Debian 10.
• Use mingw-w64 package from Ubuntu 24.10 as a reference.
  • This will get us a fairly up-to-date and stable MinGW-w64 toolchain to use.
  • It is also up-to-date enough to support UCRT (see Support paths with UTF characters on Windows #681).
• GCC will need to be built for both win32 and posix thread models.
  • Keep building Windows GNU toolchain with win32 thread model since we do not need pthread and we do not want to include pthread DLL in the Windows GNU toolchain distribution.
  • LLVM uses std::thread, which depends on pthread, and therefore require the posix thread model. Yes, we will need to include the pthread DLL.
• Build MinGW-w64 with UCRT as the "default MSVCRT."

Resources

• Ubuntu 24.10 MinGW-w64 Source Packages
  • https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oracular/+package/mingw-w64
  • https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oracular/+package/binutils-mingw-w64
  • https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oracular/+package/gcc-mingw-w64
• Support paths with UTF characters on Windows #681

[stephanosio]

zephyrproject-rtos/docker-sdk-build#26 added more up-to-date MinGW-w64 toolchain to the sdk-build Docker image.

The included version is as follows:

• MinGW 12.0.0
• Binutils 2.42
• GCC 13.2.0

There are two variants of MinGW-w64 toolchain installed, each toolchain under their own prefix:

• /opt/mingw-w64-win32: win32 thread model, for use in Windows GNU toolchain build process
• /opt/mingw-w64-posix :posix thread model, for use in Windows LLVM toolchain build process

Both variants of MinGW-w64 toolchain default to UCRT.