[Bf-committers] For MinGW builders

Agustin Benavidez agustinbenavidez at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 23:08:47 CEST 2012


We, sad and depressed obligated Windows people are happy now again!
Thanks you very much Antony Riakiotakis!

2012/4/23 Antony Riakiotakis <kalast at gmail.com>

> Hi, from the cvs log (yes it's quite long I don't want to rewrite it :) ):
>
> First MinGW-w64 support for cmake has been added. To test I recommend
> this build:
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/ray_linn/GCC-4.7.0-with-ada/mingw-w64-gcc-4.7.0-runtime-2.0.1-static-ada-20120330.7z/download
>
> Other builds may also work but due to the constantly changing nature
> of the compiler this cannot be guaranteed. I often had to change
> compilers while building the libraries and this one is the one that
> did the job for most of them.
>
> This first support is experimental and considered "advanced". To
> enable pass -DWITH_MINGW64 during cmake configuration. Also make sure
> to extract the compiler on C:/MinGW and that MinGW/bin is in your
> path. To build check out lib/mingw64.
>
> Initially the support is lacking until I get every library compiled
> correctly. For now you should disable WITH_CYCLES(sorry, I know some
> people are dying to do benchmarks, but still a few libs to go),
> WITH_IMAGE_OPENEXR, WITH_OPENCOLLADA, WITH_LIBMV and
> WITH_CODEC_FFMPEG(links but hangs on startup).
>
> Still the tools are working, the memory limit is increased and due to
> the experimental nature of the setup, full optimization with SSE2 is
> available, which makes the build quite fast. Also the compiler and
> especially, the linker are way faster than regular MinGW.
>
> The wiki docs have also updated. Happy testing!
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